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congrats, and a great story. Inspiring to see you stick with it for so long while dealing with the competing priorities of a young family. If only there was a timeline tool that could easily create an appealing, succinct graphic of the Preceden story. ;)
Congrats. It's very inspiring story.
That's brilliant, well done. Also, I have been looking for a better tool to make GANTT charts!
Good on you; We need more examples highlighted of entrepreneurs leading the slow-burn (in a good way) types of ventures. Not every business activity fits the go-big-or-go-home Zuckerberg-esque meteoric rise archetype that the Techcrunch-led hype media attracts eyeballs for portraying.
But if you ever happen to invent a product category that turns out to be a huge untapped market, the gatekeepers-that-be (Google, Facebook, Apple et al.) will try to enter it as well and stomp you.
Even if you don't, still, they collect their rent on everything we do online nowadays.
The slow burn is real and making meaningful connections to customers is important for consistent revenue in the long term.
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Makes sense. Would you be able to share a bit more about how you started off with the designer? (Background: I'm asking because our SaaS business is at a point where we know it's ready for more polish for both marketing site and web app, but are unclear how much we should budget and whether we should go "all in" by hiring a designer who takes everything as far as CSS, or start with a couple targeted improvements that…
I was lucky to find someone who can both design well and implement the changes in the codebase (using Tailwind CSS which I'd highly recommend). You can obviously have two separate people (one to design, one to implement), but if you can find someone who can do both it will simplify things. For Preceden, we kind of just went page by page converting the old design over to Tailwind, making improvements along the way, an…
Good on you; We need more examples highlighted of entrepreneurs leading the slow-burn (in a good way) types of ventures. Not every business activity fits the go-big-or-go-home Zuckerberg-esque meteoric rise archetype that the Techcrunch-led hype media attracts eyeballs for portraying.
There will be a lot more example of this in the coming years because the costs of keeping a pre-PMF webapp online have basically fallen to zero. Whereas when Zuckerberg started Facebook, if it didn't take off right away then you had no choice but to shut it down.
When you hear VCs and other folks cast doubt on the ability of anything that doesn't immediately capture lightning in a bottle to succeed in the long term, they are incorrectly pattern matching to a trend from the past that just happened to be an artifact of the economics of that time period.
I'm curious about how you juggled entrepreneurship and active deployment. Were there any interesting challenges, or did you ever meet someone doing similar things? Did you feel the need to hide what you were doing from your CO?
I never hid the fact I was working on side businesses, but also didn't go out of my way to tell coworkers. Don't think my CO's knew about it. I knew a few other officers who had side businesses, though not in the software space.