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Thank you. The advice about explaining your need to scale is great. I've made them aware that we currently don't service accounts of their scale but we can scale up. If talks proce…

I run a small SaaS and am the only employee (I have plenty of industry advisors though). We currently operate with less than 50 accounts in total. Word of mouth has led to discussi…

Thanks for your advice. Your suggestion re: success businesses with manual, redundant workflows is great food for thought!

Thank you. I felt a little dark when I knew things were going to end badly, but surprisingly I don't feel bad now that things are over. I feel slightly excited and interested in wh…

Thanks. I do need to forget about things but I also feel I need to feel as if I've earnt a paycheck. Does that make sense? I have not "won any bread" for the last 4 years and even …

Thank you. I think just spending a few weeks doing some maintenance jobs around the house and yard is what I need.

Thanks! I might take this advice. I can certainly spend a week or two doing general maintenance in the yard and around the house.

Thanks, but not really practical for us (2 kids in school and partner with great career and tenure). We do live frugally however which is how I was able to start the business in th…

Wow, I've just woken up to a bunch of new comments. Thanks everyone!

Thanks. TBH I think the niche was to small, the problem was too hard, the solution was too complex, the audience was too hard to connect with. The niche can be served but I'm not s…

I'm a little burnt out after my business failed after 4 years of hard graft. I'm looking for a new online opportunity but feel as if I've run out of ideas, problems and general cre…

If be interested to know a bit more about how you are overcoming the field of dreams problem.

I think Kent Beck said it best: Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.

It seems very common, and I see it with businesses whose customers would be unlikely to care about such musings. Why do saas owners, startups etc. talk about their own "entrepreneu…

I've had a simple tool (or set of tools) for decades that've made a habit of exercising. Mountain bikes. They truly are the killer app.

The internet is an SEO landfill (to quote a recent HN article) due to ever-growing meaningless content. What alternative methods can we use for SEO without creating even more throw…

Devils advocate here. Hi! Is it necessary to excel to be successful and/or happy?

But why do you stress the "public" bit?

Thank goodness I just use skype and email to communicate with my dealer. Oh, hang on, they're applications too :S

I think you're getting "office" confused with "warehouse" and "laboratory".

If anything greater than 2-3 months is long term and challenging your motivation and discipline then programming might not be the right path for you.

and cook the soup in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup