Sup.
Okay, who am I kidding, everyone knows I'm almost broke.
I have started doing a web design "business", to fund my invention.
I am in the process of designing a website for a client that I've found, but I know that even to get to 3-5k revenue which I need, it's going to take weeks of 16-hour days to get to that amount. Not that I am unused to 80-hour workweeks, but I could do something more impactful on the world, for god's sake!
Now some of you may have seen my attempts to "interact with the market" on this forum, and I've gotten a clear response again - until you build the real thing, no one is going to buy into it, not even give you their address. For those of you who haven't, I am building a complex machine for the kitchen that if done correctly may be a huge convenience and solve time issues for many people in the world. Even if I can solve it for at least 1% of relatively wealthy individuals, it wouldn't be a waste, but I don't exclude that it might be as widespread as IPhones - it solves a big problem and solves a big convenience. People will tell each other about it when they have it - I'll make sure to make such good experience that they will.
But I need to build it, and I don't have even my own runway to go. Right now I have less than 500$ in my bank account, and a 3d model of it. I can try to find angel investors, who I can demo that I will not fail, that I can go big, and ask for a small investment 5-20k - not giving up too much equity too, like 2-3% perhaps.
I don't view investments as "F*ck off" from my work. It will save me from some suffering that I have right now, of course, but... It is my life's mission to have an impact on the world and to create a mass production of service, but now I am literally cockblocked by having no capital.
How would you go about it? I have quit all social media long ago and have no presence, but I must find entrepreneurs who would like to see my business grow. I can cold email, or cold message on twitter, but there are little entrepreneurs which actually give good advice, and I am reluctant to go to those who give bad advice.
Or just option 3: shut the hell up and go do work while violating your dreams?
TL;DR:
I have no capital.
I believe that I have a power to change the world, and I found a way to materialize it.
I don't know if VCs are a good option
I think solo entrepreneurs are more suitable, but where do I find the good ones?
Where do I find people, who would want to see my business grow?
Okay, who am I kidding, everyone knows I'm almost broke.
I have started doing a web design "business", to fund my invention.
I am in the process of designing a website for a client that I've found, but I know that even to get to 3-5k revenue which I need, it's going to take weeks of 16-hour days to get to that amount. Not that I am unused to 80-hour workweeks, but I could do something more impactful on the world, for god's sake!
Now some of you may have seen my attempts to "interact with the market" on this forum, and I've gotten a clear response again - until you build the real thing, no one is going to buy into it, not even give you their address. For those of you who haven't, I am building a complex machine for the kitchen that if done correctly may be a huge convenience and solve time issues for many people in the world. Even if I can solve it for at least 1% of relatively wealthy individuals, it wouldn't be a waste, but I don't exclude that it might be as widespread as IPhones - it solves a big problem and solves a big convenience. People will tell each other about it when they have it - I'll make sure to make such good experience that they will.
But I need to build it, and I don't have even my own runway to go. Right now I have less than 500$ in my bank account, and a 3d model of it. I can try to find angel investors, who I can demo that I will not fail, that I can go big, and ask for a small investment 5-20k - not giving up too much equity too, like 2-3% perhaps.
I don't view investments as "F*ck off" from my work. It will save me from some suffering that I have right now, of course, but... It is my life's mission to have an impact on the world and to create a mass production of service, but now I am literally cockblocked by having no capital.
How would you go about it? I have quit all social media long ago and have no presence, but I must find entrepreneurs who would like to see my business grow. I can cold email, or cold message on twitter, but there are little entrepreneurs which actually give good advice, and I am reluctant to go to those who give bad advice.
Or just option 3: shut the hell up and go do work while violating your dreams?
TL;DR:
I have no capital.
I believe that I have a power to change the world, and I found a way to materialize it.
I don't know if VCs are a good option
I think solo entrepreneurs are more suitable, but where do I find the good ones?
Where do I find people, who would want to see my business grow?
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