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'Your call is important to us.' Yeah, but clearly not important enough to justify hiring enough staff. This drives me crazy!

Mostly good advice. Having done Australia-UK five times last year (pre-COVID) I can speak with some experience: - Noise-cancelling earphones are a must. I have some expensive cordl…

Solvitur abulando - 'it is solved by walking' (Diogenes of Sinope). Great tool for solving hard problems.

Robert Heinlein, 'Between Planets' 'A few hundred yards further on Lazy shied again, not from a snake this time but from an unexpected noise. Don pulled him in and spoke severely. …

Good questions! For the first: I'm fortunate enough to be regarded as a guru in my field. 9-5 are promised to my employers, the rest of the time is available for the startup. For t…

I'd been working on the startup full-time for 2-3 years. Software is complete, tested and documented. Design is robust enough that I hardly ever get support calls or emails. So rat…

I'm doing exactly this. Making a consistent income from a fairly hands-off fintech startup, but wanted to leverage my time so am working full-time in a related area. Made full disc…

I'm founder of a two-man bootstrapped company writing B2B financial risk analysis software out of London. Lots of interest, we're in advanced due diligence with a couple of very la…

I'm expecting to make a first sale to a large financial institution shortly, price in the mid-five figures. It's highly specialised risk management software, but is the kind of thi…

I’ve got an issue which other people on HN are sure to have met, and would appreciate their views. I’ve been putting together a business based around providing a particular type of…

This all looks like superb advice - again, thanks! - I will order 'Selling to Big Companies' tonight. - Will make sure we all have a clear idea of the sales pipeline, targets - Yes…

Thanks - that is excellent advice. I particularly appreciate the warning about salesmen being better at selling themselves than the product. I have sold related systems quite succe…

I’m a single-founder startup producing specialized risk software for financial institutions. The company is based outside the US but that’s where a large part of the potential mark…

Read anything by George Orwell. Seriously.