It takes a long time to become partner 25+ years. The burnout is insane as well.
Number 3 is a good one. Most people get into the big 4 with the idea of 2-10 years to leave. It’s just unbelievable burnout.
I have friends traveling 3 weeks a month. Hard pass.
As a reminder - most people think brushing their teeth two times a day is dumb. Or wearing masks when you’re sick.
Long story short, if your idea was killer on this sub - enough to garnish a ton of upvotes. Someone is likely already stealing your idea.
PS the idea is way less important than the execution.
It feels like a high ticket sales website vs a software site. Keep up the work!
In order to have money to spend on product building, you need people to spend money.
If people don’t buy your product. It doesn’t matter what % you’re spending on marketing vs product. You’re going bankrupt.
If the best product always won, we would have never used VHS.
@FrenchMajesty has your back.
As a consultant - here’s what we end up coaching most businesses on if their founder is not experienced in sales methodology (CRO level) prior to being a founder:
• There is a difference in real value vs perceived value. Unfortunately, perceived value is what makes the sale, real value is what determines your retention.
• Try to understand “why” your target buyer would choose to give you money instead of keep it themselves. Great way to do this is use tools like spyfu(free) which lets you understand their website traffic of organic vs paid. You can then make value statements.
•example: (going back to majesty’s point) “Saw your website is having lots of paid traffic, but not a lot of organic traffic… Have you noticed that organic traffic is hard? Probably because you have 76 competitors that look similar. Small businesses can’t afford a million dollar IT team - that’s where we’ve helped. As long as it makes sense - would 15 minutes on Thursday at 12 EST work?
There are lots of things to unpack with the post and comments.
TL;DR: find out a customers situation, their possible pain, and the impact you assume you’ll deliver - and weave this into your “pitch”.
PS NEVER connect and pitch, and focus on them not you!