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Yeah, I love growing a team and building a product I love. I feel energised doing it. I just haven’t managed to make it a profitable exercise yet (in contrast to what I was able to do consulting wise - which was a great business I didn’t want to run!)


Running a company is pretty much the same for a consultancy as for a product company.

It is sales and cash flow management and administration.

If you don’t love those things, then you don’t love running a company.

To use a sports analogy, the manager or head coach isn’t the team captain. The captain gets on the field to play. The manager has to love sitting in the office dealing with headaches.


Thanks for your thoughts.

In short - yes, but I am wary of putting more time into a product when I’m being told it’s already achieved product/market fit and maybe it’s a sales problem?


I think by that definition you do not have product market fit yet. You have something though that could lead to something bigger.

I would try to prove to yourself that it is a sales problem. Do you have free trial users who do not convert? Or is it a marketing problem as in you need to acquire leads?

Who are your customers? Where are they? What is their workflow? And how to you get yourself in front of them?


Totally agree, I never get it right first time around.


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