throwaway9004

Re:Ask HN: When do you give up? on Thursday June 07, 2012 @12:36AM (#4077640)

Removing service consulting and developing a product is what I am shooting for. Let us see if I can get somewhere with that.

Re:Ask HN: When do you give up? on Thursday June 07, 2012 @12:34AM (#4077635)

Tried getting external sales and Biz person, did not work out. I think it is pretty hard to do sales and Biz Dev for a company of my size unless you are the founder. You don't have a real brand and established processes that the sales/biz dev person can rely on. I was warned against this by someone that runs a company 100 times larger than mine and I ignored his advice and tried it anyway.

Re:Ask HN: When do you give up? on Thursday June 07, 2012 @12:30AM (#4077619)

For some reason, this post originally showed up as dead, so did not check it until now.

Ask HN: When do you give up?

Posted by throwaway9004 on Monday June 04, 2012 @07:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I run a fairly successful consulting company with under a dozen employees. Have been doing this for two years now and for the past six months it has been replacing the day job salary that I was making before I quit to do this.Some of the motivations for starting the company:1) Never had a job that I wasn't bored at.2) Needed a sense of accomplishment and feeling that I am doing something that...

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