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Oh, FFS, this is getting silly now. The web/app tech startup game has become too industrialised. I just woke up to 20 cold emails offering the chance to invest in another 'innovative' Saas - none of them launched!! Let me clarify something because I am no longer sure this is obvious to budding founders now the game is so clouded by 'experts'... Investment is NOT THE POINT of a startup. Offering a useful service to paying customers, usually to help them save time/money, is the point. If the first thing on your mind after the eureka moment is: "I need to get investment", then you are in for major disappointment and distraction. You will spend a year being sucked in by the startup industrial complex, which will help you do everything apart from building your f*cking app and getting some early paying customers through the door. Don't get me wrong, there are many great people out there (and just as many who are not great!), and you will learn some good stuff. But what none of them will do, is buy your early product. So as 2025 starts rolling, it's time to get back to basics... 1. Have an idea 2. Build a prototype 3. Start selling If your response is "But I can't code" or "I can't afford developers" or "I'm terrible at selling" then you are looking at this problem completely wrong. If you want to earn the title "entrepreneur", put on your lateral-thinking head and start looking outside the box. Btw, those who already deserve that title and are destined for Zuckerberg levels of success won't even be reading this. They'll just be out there doing it already - and racing ahead of you with your idea (please don't tell me your idea is unique)! As more early-stage investors pull out of the game (less risk-taking, moved to Dubai, money locked up in the last batch of startups who have all zombified,... take your pick), you have two choices... 👉 spend a year being distracted trying and failing to find investment 👉 spend a year learning to code, building a social presence and selling It has never been easier to do this stuff, as long as you don't get distracted. ---------------------------- 😊 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 29 𝐲𝐫𝐬 📌 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ----------------------------
