{"id":2517,"date":"2019-09-23T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T04:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T04:45:30","slug":"get-paying-users-let-someone-else-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/get-paying-users-let-someone-else-change-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Get paying users. Let someone else change the world."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I found this interesting article by David Mercer of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"smepals.com (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/smepals.com\" target=\"_blank\">smepals.com<\/a> in AllBusiness. He shares 5 lessons he learnt in his entrepreneurial journey and they made a comprehensive list of learnings.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>According to David: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> 1. Great ideas are rarely a flash of genius<br> 2. Failure is part of the entrepreneurial process<br> 3. Find an early path to revenue<br> 4. The development Phase is not \u2018the business\u2019<br> 5. Build relationships quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While they are part of most startup advice I specially liked two of them. I believe that we spend too much time talking about the product and not enough about revenue. Like MVP we need MVR or minimum viable revenue. This thought is linked to point 3 &#8211; find an early path to revenue. Also the fact that founders push the eventuality of facing customers as far as they can &#8211; must change. Build and get users to validate. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never too late to refocus on these two cores. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think? What has been your experience while you built your company and product?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt this # 266 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Important Startup Lessons That I\u2019ve Learned as an Entrepreneur <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allbusiness.com\/5-startup-lessons-entrepreneur-103556-1.html\">https:\/\/www.allbusiness.com\/5-startup-lessons-entrepreneur-103556-1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting article by David Mercer of smepals.com in AllBusiness. He shares 5 lessons he learnt in his entrepreneurial journey and they made a comprehensive list of learnings.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/get-paying-users-let-someone-else-change-the-world\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,83],"tags":[70,81,200,211],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-startup","tag-alwayslearning","tag-startups","tag-revenue","tag-users"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-EB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}