Ask HN: What would you do? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What would you do?

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Post by franciscocosta » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 9:11 PM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #10

I'd start with asking if future sales really depends on further development in the short term, or if further development is instead a way of moving outside your comfort zone and into a focus on business development? --forgive me if I am drawing the wrong picture based on the details of your sketch. In other words, if it comes down to features or customers, customers needs to win. Otherwise you may be spending too muc…

Glad you ask.. as you can see right now the service is fully operational but lots of improvements an new developments could be make. It's not a comfort zone problem because I'm constantly changing between the 2 areas, but I believe that this way I'm also failing in quality execution on both areas.

Thanks for the advice, it meant a lot!

Re: Ask HN: What would you do?

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Post by beat » Tue, Jun 11, 2013, 7:18 PM UTC

franciscocosta wrote: post #5

beat wrote: post #2

I feel your pain. I'd love to find a co-founder to share load, but no luck so far. :( But if you have a working product and paying clients, you should definitely go seek funding. It'll slow down your development, but you're in a much better position because you're already selling.

Not selling to make a living yet, just some occasional revenue. Do you recommend any funding company?

Where are you located? What you probably want right now is a seed round of angel investment, but that depends a lot on the angel community in your area.

Go read everything Paul Graham (the guy who started YCombinator) ever wrote, for starters. And read Brad Feld's website as well. Those will give you a good insight into fundraising.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do?

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Post by franciscocosta » Tue, Jun 11, 2013, 11:14 PM UTC

beat wrote: post #12

franciscocosta wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not selling to make a living yet, just some occasional revenue. Do you recommend any funding company?

Where are you located? What you probably want right now is a seed round of angel investment, but that depends a lot on the angel community in your area. Go read everything Paul Graham (the guy who started YCombinator) ever wrote, for starters. And read Brad Feld's website as well. Those will give you a good insight into fundraising.

I'm in Porto, Portugal. We are going through a financial crysis and the economy is on hold right now. I'm starting to look on other European countries. Didn't know about Brad Feld, thanks for the tip!