A nice blog post by Robert Saric about startups.<p>"It has been nearly 4 years since we started the journey as independent operators of a business. Meaning that we started from nothing, and our only sources of income came from the value we generated for clients. We ventured into the business world as 3 software entrepreneurs, who had experience working with companies and building things, and now we’re a team of 8."...
Our startup is trying to weigh the balance between professional services and developing a product. It's a tricky dance and I've been on both sides of it before. Initially your product isn't great, so you focus heavily on customer service. The trap here is clearly that if you're not making your product more appealing to a wider market, you're going to get stuck forever with a small set of customers. Alternatively if you're not engaging with your initial clients and are developing in a vacuum, your product is going to stink because most likely no one is going to want it.
If they weren't hard everyone would be doing it - but knowing that the risk is worth the reward at the end (both money and the idea of success) definitely makes the struggles and years without sleep worth it.
It is a known fact that starting a small business is hard. But we still need to be convinced that a start up is hard aswell<p>Startup == Small business<p>note that there are only 2 equal signs
Startup is pregnancy !
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