Ask HN: What are some good strategies to self-fund a startup?

Re:Ask HN: What are some good strategies to self-fund a star... by indekkel on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:02PM (#32088716)

We are both technical, and seasoned with 15+ years of experience each. The startup would be in a completely different domain, but there would be some overlap. Basically, we are both ML people but pretty strong software engineers, so we end up doing little ML work, and end up writing lots of software, from back-end infrastructure, to front-end software to interact with the systems.

I don’t mind doing all that for an MVP. But taking it all into production and maintaining it is not my preference - I’d rather hire folks that love that part.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some good strategies to self-fund a star... by failTide on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @07:31PM (#32090047)

Good - you have the skills needed to bootstrap the thing for cheap. Don't even worry about what's going to happen after your MVP right now - you'll have to work your ass off to ever get to that point. My advice is to NOT spend any significant amount of your own money on the project, because chances are you will not see it again. The reality of the startup game is that even the well-prepared will fail most of the time.

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