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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

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    3.5 year update It's been around six months since my last update, and things have continued moving in the right direction. Back in March, we had just closed two annual deals and I felt like we were finally starting to crack things. Since then, we've closed several more annual deals, more than...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Yes, you have to be clear, i don't do user stories, but did before when product managing. For AI now, I use Claude with superpowers/GStack by Garry Tan. If you're running agents over night, you must be coding a lot! And using up a lot of tokens. What are you building?
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Insights and analytics. Before I ran a consultancy.
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    They're all in the pipeline, late stages, so just do as im doing. Killer offer, time sensitive, solve a big problem for them now.
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    3 year update Wow, it's been a blast. I remember in year one I was struggling with cold outreach, only getting leads via inbound, so I thought I was a failure. I was also absolutely terrible at sales, way to humble. Looking back, everything seems so obvious. Anyway, the point im making is...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    :):):)
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Haha true. I meant as in, even if no one read it, it's still a good journal.
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    30 month update Shit's getting real. Big pipeline. Multiple agreements. Very big 2-4 weeks ahead. Looking back over three years, progress has definitely been exponential - i.e. nothing then ALL at once. Still along way from the goal, but inspiring how much has been achieved in the last 4...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    30 month update So, as stated in last post, realised consulting wasn't working, terrible industry, especially with AI. So pivoted to solving a solution but with software. Since last call I - Found a co founder - Pivoted to software - Agreed deals with 3-4 customers - Raised a funding round...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    2 Year Update So I'm about 2 years into this. Damn, I've learned so much. I think the education and character building part of entrepreneurship should be stressed more. How are things going? Well good and not great? But I'm more content, hungry and excited than I've ever been in my life...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Thanks man. And yeah, i've learned so much particularly around sales, management, hiring and marketing. Yeah 15 hours per week, but at the same time I've had a lot of automated cold outreach campaigns running and other automated things running for 18 months. I'm just finding it really...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

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    18 month update Been doing well and still at it, but hard to scale. Also very hard to acquire customers. AI is likely to take away a lot of what I do. I had a client telling me that I'd be being replaced by AI. I do business plans and research reports for them. In all honesty, I don't...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    1 YEAR UPDATE Sooooo it's been just over a year since I lauched. Things have gone well but not perfect, which is expected. I'm definitely happy with the progress I have made, but eager for more! Revenue was approx $30,000 for the year Gross profit of $20,000 Net profit $12,000 Tax is a...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

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    9 MONTH UPDATE So, everythings been going pretty well. I've managed to hire a good freelancer after countless terrible ones. I've also worked on some interesting projects too. I managed to land a big client, one of the worlds biggest companies. I'm over to moon about this, but the work...
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    I Quit My Job to Start a Research Agency

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Thanks, appreciate the comments and support!
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