This post may as well be written by me. After graduation, I started making Android apps (way back in 2015). I had ideas that I thought were cool, but often a bit more than what I could chew. Regardless, I made a few, released and did almost nothing to promote it as I didn’t know anything about it. Nor how important it was. After 3 years (had to learn coding and design on my own), I finally admitted to myself that just making a good app is nowhere near enough for success.
Trouble with learning marketing is that it’s best to learn on someone else’s dime, as it takes a lot of dime to experiment enough to learn. Plus you learn from colleagues too. So I did MBA to shift and now work as a marketer exclusively at early stage startups. During weekends, I code, and now I have a much better understanding of how a business is actually built. Not to mention the network and mentors. No doubt I have more to learn, but good enough to put my resources into it.
This post may as well be written by me. After graduation, I started making Android apps (way back in 2015). I had ideas that I thought were cool, but often a bit more than what I could chew. Regardless, I made a few, released and did almost nothing to promote it as I didn’t know anything about it. Nor how important it was. After 3 years (had to learn coding and design on my own), I finally admitted to myself that just making a good app is nowhere near enough for success.
Trouble with learning marketing is that it’s best to learn on someone else’s dime, as it takes a lot of dime to experiment enough to learn. Plus you learn from colleagues too. So I did MBA to shift and now work as a marketer exclusively at early stage startups. During weekends, I code, and now I have a much better understanding of how a business is actually built. Not to mention the network and mentors. No doubt I have more to learn, but good enough to put my resources into it.