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If you are having trouble with this question, I can tell you startups deal with similar customer acquisition and how to launch questions, but 10x harder. So I don't follow, are you a technology consultant with experience in specific hardware or software technologies or is this general business consulting you hope to sell?
The difficulty is not in getting them to pay but showing your credibility. There is tons of free information on the internet why should a startup pay you? We are building a platform where people contribute time to help in the building of a company or service. Please visit www.crowdraising.co Pledge time to start
No offense here. But what kind of startup consultant are you that needs to come on Hacker News to ask how to start such a relatively simple business? If you are having trouble with this question, I can tell you startups deal with similar customer acquisition and how to launch questions, but 10x harder. So I don't follow, are you a technology consultant with experience in specific hardware or software technologies or…
No offense here. But what kind of startup consultant are you that needs to come on Hacker News to ask how to start such a relatively simple business? If you are having trouble with this question, I can tell you startups deal with similar customer acquisition and how to launch questions, but 10x harder. So I don't follow, are you a technology consultant with experience in specific hardware or software technologies or…
Go to twitter
Find companies you think could benefit from hiring you
Pitch them
Rinse and repeat.
Long term:
Productize whatever solutions you develop during the short term.
The difficulty is not in getting them to pay but showing your credibility. There is tons of free information on the internet why should a startup pay you? We are building a platform where people contribute time to help in the building of a company or service. Please visit www.crowdraising.co Pledge time to start
Occasionally linking to your own stuff in relevant contexts is fine on HN, but you've been doing it excessively. When you do that, the HN hivemind gets upset and uses unkind words like 'spam', so please don't do that.
You should focus on a single area or niche that you can do very well and has direct monetary value to a startup. What that area or set of skills turns out to be is for you to decide. It is better to be loved by a handful of people than try to be "maybe helpful" to every startup.
Personally I have been getting into the business of Pre-Launches for startups and programmers who are still working on finishing their MVP's. These programmers don't want to spend dozens or hundreds of hours learning about cheaply finding their customers online, building landing pages that convert, or growing their email list of future customers. They just want to be able to launch their product and acquire their first batch of users. Taking this headache away from them gives them the validation and encouragement they need to finish their MVPs and the time they saved by not building and marketing their pre-launch landing page can be used to instead finish their core functionality.
Thats just my 2 cents.
I would PERSONALLY pay you 500/month if you could prove to me that you deliver more than 500/month in value. Your problem is your value prop, not your price.