Hey all,
As always, thank you in advance for the guidance and mentorship! I'll try to keep this short.
I'm a bit stuck contemplating what my next move should be and it's causing me to get nothing done. Some backstory: I decided to make a commitment to going fastlane this february and started developing a software that in my field I've seen and heard a large need for. Basically my goal is to remove the barriers mid-large sized businesses face in rolling out employee engagement plans through HR and employee management. The software is built to make complex tasks simple and do the leg work.
I've finished developing the software have had friends/mentors poke around and have gotten great response. However, my commitment is to solving the need as best as possible and will need to experiment and have real companies try it - early adopters. My problem is I work full time and cannot save up the funds to quit until end of Jan 2017. With this type of software it is difficult as companies are putting a significant investment into getting set up, inputting employee info, creating templates, etc - it's a lot less likely that you can just throw it out there and have companies sign up without talking to salesman, calling a 1800 numbers, etc. I just don't see how it can sell itself without me being there full time.
So my question is, what should my move be for the next 3 months? I have thought about developing the software further, making tutorial videos, brushing up on some features that were "nice to haves" and things I BELIEVE people would want , etc but might be wasting time as you never know until people try it. Or I could spend a month developing the website and trying to sell it externally with customer service only available when I'm home from work, blogging, building social media, etc. My main goal in all of this is figuring out what it is people want.
Any advice would be great.
As always, thank you in advance for the guidance and mentorship! I'll try to keep this short.
I'm a bit stuck contemplating what my next move should be and it's causing me to get nothing done. Some backstory: I decided to make a commitment to going fastlane this february and started developing a software that in my field I've seen and heard a large need for. Basically my goal is to remove the barriers mid-large sized businesses face in rolling out employee engagement plans through HR and employee management. The software is built to make complex tasks simple and do the leg work.
I've finished developing the software have had friends/mentors poke around and have gotten great response. However, my commitment is to solving the need as best as possible and will need to experiment and have real companies try it - early adopters. My problem is I work full time and cannot save up the funds to quit until end of Jan 2017. With this type of software it is difficult as companies are putting a significant investment into getting set up, inputting employee info, creating templates, etc - it's a lot less likely that you can just throw it out there and have companies sign up without talking to salesman, calling a 1800 numbers, etc. I just don't see how it can sell itself without me being there full time.
So my question is, what should my move be for the next 3 months? I have thought about developing the software further, making tutorial videos, brushing up on some features that were "nice to haves" and things I BELIEVE people would want , etc but might be wasting time as you never know until people try it. Or I could spend a month developing the website and trying to sell it externally with customer service only available when I'm home from work, blogging, building social media, etc. My main goal in all of this is figuring out what it is people want.
Any advice would be great.
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