Ask HN: What is holding your startup back?

#1

Post by embiggen » Sun, Jun 19, 2016, 6:43 PM UTC

What do you feel is holding your startup back from achieving massive success and market-wide adoption?

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#2

Post by emilburzo » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 6:55 AM UTC

Being far far away from any tech scene, i.e.: no networking.

Re: Ask HN: What is holding your startup back?

#3

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 7:07 AM UTC

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#4

Post by maureenash » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 7:25 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What is holding your startup back?

#5

Post by NetStrikeForce » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 11:17 AM UTC

emilburzo wrote: post #2

Being far far away from any tech scene, i.e.: no networking.

What about online communities? I'm sure you're not the only one on your situation.

Although I'm close to a big tech scene (London), I can't be an active participant of offline meetings very often, so I resort to online communities: Business communities, Bootstrapping communities, Startup communities, etc

Two examples:

Bootstrapped.fm

Hope it helps.

Barnacl.es

Re: Ask HN: What is holding your startup back?

#6

Post by itomato » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 3:39 PM UTC

Marketing and communications, specifically impressions and publicising.

Bootstraped budget doesn't go very far toward AdWords or Conference attendance.

Re: Ask HN: What is holding your startup back?

#7

Post by miguelrochefort » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 7:24 PM UTC

My target audience is too dumb to know it needs my solution.

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#8

Post by eecks » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 9:02 PM UTC

My full-time job

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#9

Post by CommanderData » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 3:03 PM UTC

My day job. If I leave I worry about excessive procrastination. Procrastination is good in small amounts. Finding a balance is something that always troubles me.

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Post by Psychoticmormon » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

itomato wrote: post #6

Marketing and communications, specifically impressions and publicising. Bootstraped budget doesn't go very far toward AdWords or Conference attendance.

You can go pretty far with a boot strap budget. You just have to be zero'd in on your audience and be an expert in your content.

If it's web based mine your Google Analytics and hit the spots that are finding you naturally.