I am a multi-time founder myself. I've secured millions from investors for my past startups and had notable success with a video app that gathered 4M users and $300k in revenue. However, due to the intense competition in the video app editing sector, my team and I couldn't turn a profit.
After my last startup faltered during the covid period, I transitioned to being a full-time product-market fit and growth marketing consultant and have made really great money doing it. I assist new startups in avoiding the mistakes I made and implement frameworks that significantly increase their chances of success. I've observed that many new founders venture into startups without fully grasping the challenges of building something people genuinely desire. It’s really not easy. How would you know what you don’t know? I’ve seen founders waste years wasting millions of $ investor money on products that were clearly going to fail. They refused to look at the reality objectively. I’m also a victim of this with my own products and it’s a constant battle to NOT do this.
I’m looking to assemble a compact team of solo founders to collaboratively develop products with high disruptive potential, almost like an incubator. One of my past investors even suggested raising a fund to bring this concept to life. The structure would involve multiple founders, each focusing on different products in diverse industries, collectively helping each other ideate, build, launch, achieve product-market fit, and scale. There are systems we can employ that help us validate whether or not the idea has utility before we even write a line of code.
If this resonates, I'd be keen to discuss and learn more about your experience and tech stack. Founders who’ve failed in the past or are currently feel like they can’t figure out why their current app wont “take off” are particularly welcome, but it's not mandatory. The ideal collaborators are those who can develop swiftly, welcome constructive feedback, and are committed to co-building something exceptional.
Feel free to comment or DM me if you're interested.
P.S. Those who are fans of the hero’s journey. I’ve built a philosophy around product building using the hero’s journey by Joseph Campbell. There’s also the often overlooked Heroine’s journey that not many people talk about, but I think it is crucial in understanding the mindset of product builders and users of those products. You would think the founders are on a hero’s journey, but the reality is they’re on the heroine’s journey, and their users are the ones on the hero’s journey as they discover and are transformed by your products.
NEO in the matrix was on the heroine’s journey. The first 4 of the many stages are:
- "The perfect world”.
- “Shattering of the rose colored glasses”
- “Denial that the glasses have broken”
- “ The mentor or fairy godmother tries to help the heroine (can be both male and female) see the reality for what it is."
If the heroine chooses not to see reality, they get stuck in a world that they believe is perfect, and that's where most of the pre-product market fit chaos comes from. Aka, NEO can stay in the perfect world that doesn't exist, or he can choose to take the pill that will help him see.
Check out the attached image for a better understanding of how both journeys relate.
http://thinkspiritual.ca/heroinesjourney
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