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Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by hef19898 on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:03PM (#22506781)
Damn, I might be guilty as charged! Not long ago, I officially launched greenleaves.io, a logistics startup. The main issue I have with the about us thing is, that for now it is just me. So I use a lot of we and such (the co founder will join as soon as there is enough money to sustain a second person, we both have family, so...).

Would you to have quick look at https://greenleaves.io/about/? Because the last two weeks told me that I might be overthinking a couple of things...

Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by DoreenMichele on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:13PM (#22506864)
Try reading this: https://johnnycupcakes.com/pages/about

Then sit down and "tell your story" in writing as if you were telling it over beers at a pub to a few new-ish friends who don't all equally well know your backstory. Get someone to read through it before publishing it. Good feedback is very helpful. Also, grammar check, spell check, etc.

You want to be somewhat entertaining, but more importantly you want to capture as succinctly and compellingly as possible why you are uniquely/especially qualified to offer a new and better solution to an old and tired problem space, basically.

There's also a movie clip I like and I've written about why elsewhere, so let me link you to that write up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/ecr2vv/get...

I actually suck at the doing business thing or I would no doubt have some brilliant tie-in here to "And if you have trouble with that, you can hire me..blah blah blah." This is why I still work for a writing service. And I blog.

Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by hef19898 on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:08AM (#22510722)
Thanks for pointing me there! This whole about us thing took me longer to write than the content for the rest of the page, I hate selling myself. Seems I have my work cut out for me over the next couple of days!
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by DoreenMichele on Saturday March 07, 2020 @03:23PM (#22513790)
Feel free to email me with your first draft or whatever.

I don't know how to do this networking thing or whatever, but I do know something about writing and about doing stuff on a budget.

Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by hef19898 on Saturday March 07, 2020 @05:04PM (#22514504)
Sounds good! Expect mail next week. And I ain't good at this whole networking thing neither.
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by DoreenMichele on Saturday March 07, 2020 @05:21PM (#22514622)
Awesome!
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by needcaffeine on Sunday March 08, 2020 @08:57AM (#22517783)
This was an excellent exchange that I learned a lot from. Thank you both.
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by clemParis on Friday March 06, 2020 @03:35PM (#22507073)
I agree with the "tell the story as if you were telling it over beers at a pub" part but please don't make your page 9Mb like in the first example ;)
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by DoreenMichele on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:15PM (#22507370)
Someone at a meeting recently quoted some historical figure about "If you want me to write a speech of 5000 words, that will be a thousand dollars. If you want me to write a speech of 500 words, that will be ten thousand dollars."

Writing concisely is a virtue, but getting in all the details often matters more. It's fine if the first draft is wordy. If you can reach a point where it tells the story well and is also concise, you probably have something "worth its weight in gold."

It can take a lot of time to get there. Good writing can take a lot of time. This is often not at all obvious.

Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by allenu on Saturday March 07, 2020 @07:39AM (#22511274)
My feedback is the story itself has no flavor or personality to it. It’s essentially “we’ve worked in this space all our careers and then decided to start a company.”

What I would suggest is to add your personalities and some interesting details to it. Something like “Fred started out as an intern at a lightbulb factory and soon realized he loved making things more efficient.”

Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by hef19898 on Saturday March 07, 2020 @08:08AM (#22511371)
Thanks! That's really valuable feedback!
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by ComputerGuru on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:51PM (#22509625)
Those stock photos. cringe
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by hef19898 on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:05AM (#22510711)
I am working on a budget, so... But yeah, on the list to be replaced with something non-stock!
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by factsaresacred on Saturday March 07, 2020 @10:37AM (#22512047)
Re:6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far by hef19898 on Saturday March 07, 2020 @10:44AM (#22512095)
Thanks! I took them from pexxels for now, but that looks pretty good!