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Ask HN: Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle

6•vieews•6h ago
Founders,

what's been the hardest part of running or building your startup lately?

Whether it's fundraising, finding PMF, hiring, burnout, technical problems, customer acquisition, co-founder issues, runway stress, or anything else, we'd love to hear real stories.

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setnone•3h ago
The struggle is the name of the game. Heck, it starts with the word entrepreneur -- I'm struggling to type it properly and even pronounce it all the time :)
escapecharacter•3m ago
I've had trouble finding case studies of B2B development deals. My past experience includes lots of milestone-based development as a contracted solo dev.

Now, I'm bootstrapping (in stealth) a B2B service with 3 employees. The basic service exists. To continue funding, I can get VC investment, or I can get business customers to pay up-front development costs, to customize to their use case.

Let's say for a normal customer, the service costs $X / month. I want to write a deal with a business customer where they pay $Y up front, for us to build the service for their use case. Maybe in return, we discount their usage cost: * their cost is $ 0.5 * X per month for Y/X months, OR * their cost is $ 0.5 * X per month for (1.5 * Y/X) months (like a loan with interest), OR * their cost is $ 0.7 * X in perpetuity (permanent discount), OR * no discount at all, and we the cost to the customer as early access.

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Ask HN: Struggling founders, pls share your startup struggle

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