For the past ~12 years I've being an entrepreneur and had about 5 projects.<p>I didn't actually found my 2nd, but was invited to be a founding partner and, after 4.5 years, I sold my shares for a good amount, that allowed me to keep going for 3 years with the bare minimum to pay my bills. And, after selling my shares, I founded other 2 projects that failed and 1 that is my current.<p>After the 4th failed, I decided to take a time out and was invited to work at a prominent startup. Been there for 8 months before deciding I really need something of my own to feel fullfiled.<p>And I'm currently on the 3rd year of my 5th endeavor, which is generating good money, I have a good salary and good dividends each year. Not anything that will make me really rich, but I'm doing ok.<p>We have 13 people with us now and for the next 6 months we plan to have 20.<p>We're a B2B company developing crawlers and automating data routines (RPA/data collecting/enrichment), made around US$500k last year (which is an amazing achievement for my country). We're about to launch our first SaaS, within the same crawler/data collection area, as our previous business model is totally reliant on consultancy/custom development.
But now I feel like we're going sideways. From January we don't have as much new leads and the projects that we get are smaller. I know Covid struck and most companies slowed down on investments, but as I mentioned we're in this position from 2 months prior to covid. And now, after 3 years of existence and positive results, we're having negative results for the past 4 months.<p>I'm afraid our new SaaS won't sky rocket and our current consultancy model won't be enough to hold everything together.<p>So, I'm starting to lose motivation to keep going.
I'm not whining, I'm really looking for ways someone out there found that extra motivation pill to keep going. I used to love having my own thing and worked around the clock like it was fun and all. Trying to find that again.