Okay, I just got investment from the largest and most reputable VC in my country.
As part of the deal, I will have access to around 1000 large companies. Basically VC can just call these companies and have them try/buy my product. So this really is a golden ticket. The VC money I am getting is also a pretty size-able amount.
This is a pre-seed round, my product is still at ideation phase. What I am looking to develop is basically airtable.com competitor, but much easier to use, more geared toward small/medium enterprises and will have more country specific integrations. Basically I have unlimited access to distribution and sales should come easy, given the respect VC has in my country.
Given that I will have immediate access to about 1000 large b2b customers, is airtable like competitor the best course of action? Or is there a better idea I can develop into an MVP? My main goal is to develop the MVP and get to profitability as fast as possible.
I’m curious what is your motivation to do this? You seem to already be loaded and it sounds pretty boring to just recreate something that already exists
Hey it’s not going to be just a complete copy. It’s definitely going to be different. Like notion, clickup and coda, they are all similar in the same space but all different. Same with mine. It’s going to have its own design, own unique use cases according customer interviews and unique features specific to my country.
When i said competitor to airtable i didn’t really mean exact copy. And my motivation is because i am passionate about this space, my previous startup was an ERP system. So yeah, and who wouldn’t take a chance if given my opportunity? I would be a fool to say no. And yes i am going to figure out a lot of things on the way, like i always do.