Ask HN: What is holding your startup back?

8 points by embiggen 10 years ago | 10 comments

What do you feel is holding your startup back from achieving massive success and market-wide adoption?

My day job. If I leave I worry about excessive procrastination. Procrastination is good in small amounts. Finding a balance is something that always troubles me.

ganeshkrishnan 10 years ago |

Released http://www.wikibackpacker.com/

It's growing organically but I want to pound the ground and do marketing for widespread adoption.

I have ideas (contests, giveaways, posters, events etc) but need a business person to carry this ideas forward.

itomato 10 years ago |

Marketing and communications, specifically impressions and publicising.

Bootstraped budget doesn't go very far toward AdWords or Conference attendance.

Psychoticmormon 10 years ago | |

You can go pretty far with a boot strap budget. You just have to be zero'd in on your audience and be an expert in your content.

If it's web based mine your Google Analytics and hit the spots that are finding you naturally.

miguelrochefort 10 years ago |

My target audience is too dumb to know it needs my solution.

Psychoticmormon 10 years ago | |

"Sales is terrible with value props"

emilburzo 10 years ago |

Being far far away from any tech scene, i.e.: no networking.

NetStrikeForce 10 years ago | |

What about online communities? I'm sure you're not the only one on your situation.

Although I'm close to a big tech scene (London), I can't be an active participant of offline meetings very often, so I resort to online communities: Business communities, Bootstrapping communities, Startup communities, etc

Two examples:

Bootstrapped.fm

Hope it helps.

Barnacl.es

eecks 10 years ago |

My full-time job

piyushco 10 years ago |

not able to find developers to put software development on FastTrack.