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Argh. Pitch TO your clients. TO your clients. English - use it right.
There is a difference between clients and customers. If I ran a startup I would prefer to have customers not clients. You don't know how an idea will turn out until you build the mvp. The Only validation you should need is that you are building something to solve a pain you are having. It's easy to go overboard seeking validation data for an idea, don't forget to trust your intuition, its often a more accurate source…
There is a difference between clients and customers. If I ran a startup I would prefer to have customers not clients. You don't know how an idea will turn out until you build the mvp. The Only validation you should need is that you are building something to solve a pain you are having. It's easy to go overboard seeking validation data for an idea, don't forget to trust your intuition, its often a more accurate source…
I think that the author is not a native english speaker, and means 'customers' when he writes 'clients'.
A couple of typos: shedule -> schedule, developement -> development, won't be broken -> broke
Argh. Pitch TO your clients. TO your clients. English - use it right.
This is just wrong. Pitch when used as a verb can - and sometimes must - be used without "to" ("He pitched me a new startup idea" vs *"He pitched to me a new startup idea"). As a noun it does need "to".
That only sounds unnatural because of ordering (which is a little like old-style English). Reordered, it reads just fine:
"He pitched a new startup idea to me"
The "pitch [object] to [party]" usage is the older/more established, I think, although recent (American) usage has somewhat shifted to "pitch [party]".
It's not a big deal either way. Maybe ivix is from the UK or somewhere with different usage.
I am not ever again doing the mistake of developing something in my corner. I want to see the money!
Find market/fit before trying to grow.
Exactly. Get some clients to pay for your product (or your soon-to-be product). I am not ever again doing the mistake of developing something in my corner. I want to see the money! Find market/fit before trying to grow.
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Totally agreed. I'll simplify this even more - people need to pay bills.
I agree that business often need some kind of investment to help get started but it is not always the case. It feels like the end game of any startup these days is to close a round of investment from a top-tier fund as if that creates a business in itself. That point is very much just the beginning and then the real work starts. We need to get back to thinking of investment as an aid to building a sustainable busines…
The more startup stuff I read the more I think a lot of founders are just in it to get investment and draw a salary from that while they around bloviating about the latest buzzwords rather than either building a business or getting a job.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that business often need some kind of investment to help get started but it is not always the case. It feels like the end game of any startup these days is to close a round of investment from a top-tier fund as if that creates a business in itself. That point is very much just the beginning and then the real work starts. We need to get back to thinking of investment as an aid to building a sustainable busines…
It doesn't create business but it does get the founders a paycheck. The more startup stuff I read the more I think a lot of founders are just in it to get investment and draw a salary from that while they around bloviating about the latest buzzwords rather than either building a business or getting a job.