Ask HN: What is holding your startup back?

8 pointsembiggen9y ago10 comments

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

10 comments

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.

ganeshkrishnan9y ago

Released http://www.wikibackpacker.com/

It's growing organically but I want to pound the ground and do marketing for widespread adoption.

I have ideas (contests, giveaways, posters, events etc) but need a business person to carry this ideas forward.

itomato9y ago

Marketing and communications, specifically impressions and publicising.

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

Psychoticmormon9y ago

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.

miguelrochefort9y ago

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

Psychoticmormon9y ago

"Sales is terrible with value props"

emilburzo9y ago

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

NetStrikeForce9y ago

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

eecks9y ago

My full-time job

piyushco9y ago

not able to find developers to put software development on FastTrack.

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10 comments

CommanderData9y ago

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.

ganeshkrishnan9y ago

Released http://www.wikibackpacker.com/

It's growing organically but I want to pound the ground and do marketing for widespread adoption.

I have ideas (contests, giveaways, posters, events etc) but need a business person to carry this ideas forward.

itomato9y ago

Marketing and communications, specifically impressions and publicising.

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

Psychoticmormon9y ago

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.

miguelrochefort9y ago

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

Psychoticmormon9y ago

"Sales is terrible with value props"

emilburzo9y ago

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

NetStrikeForce9y ago

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

Two examples:

Bootstrapped.fm

Hope it helps.

Barnacl.es

eecks9y ago

My full-time job

piyushco9y ago

not able to find developers to put software development on FastTrack.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse