In 2010, I started selling online. All 5 Ventures failed miserably.
Currently, I am a full-stack software engineer here in TX working with a Fortune 500 company.
I have a dream to have my own business.
My brother will also help me. He is also a software developer.
So, Me and My brother want to go on a little adventure.
You got it right.
Obviously, the straight path is to start with a “Web Design Agency” We want to help SaaS entrepreneurs.
We like to work with SaaS entrepreneurs, from idea validation to live-in production.
I don’t have any idea how to start it.
We are trying to find out some clients we can work on.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

  • brianl047@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The real deal is to join an accelerator, use slicing pie model to divide equity and join a group of people to build a company. The company will more likely than not get funding

    If you want to do it yourself that’s much more fraught with pain and suffering and more importantly no investors

    Nobody will sign an NDA for your idea and accelerators will not sign it as part of you joining up

  • kitfisto202@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ask yourself… Why would people pay you to prove their business model when you’ve had zero successful businesses

  • MysteriousTopic1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    $5,000 is not very much. What types of things are you including in that package? I have worked a lot with contract developers and off-shore dev teams. If you want suggestions on how to start I can give advice from the perspective of a client. Otherwise

    Upwork, Fiverr, post your rate and profile there. Get a couple friends to hire you and pay yourself so you can have a few completed verified projects. People are wary of postings with no reviews or completed projects.

  • Minute-Line2712@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    As others say I commend your persistence.

    I feel maybe you’re trying to go for a web design agency because it feels most natural and it’s also broad so you don’t actually need to do any of the “niche” aspect of a business AS much (which I guess might be weird as you’re actually trying to help people niche into their market fit). So question, would you envision this as THE agency to go to for building and validating where everyone goes to take their idea to MVP?

    So with that in mind, your pricing should also be reflective for how widely adopted you want to be. If you’re going for $3k-5k, that’s a rather slim window of customers and you’re not really gonna be a “mainstream” option possibly just for the price not being “consumer friendly”. I think your price just reflects how much it carries (a very full service of many components). Do you think this aligns to your vision in terms of where your solution would be positioned in the market? Because if let’s say you wanna be on the line of go daddy for example, you’re 99% not underway with that pricing. You’d be something more like those really high end solutions in B2B that are mega packed with quality and quantity for high prices.

    I also would consider the nature of entreprneurism. Low budgets, aiming to be as cheap as possible, etc. You want someone who knows exactly what they want enough to have the $ and be ready to spend it, but who also is unsure enough that they want your help over another dev agency. That seems confusing to me and the results from people who have money to spend but no real direction or knowledge may lead to failure.

    In short. How will you deal with entrepreneurship’s natural failure rate considering that’s supposedly the highlight of your business?