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Hi, I've been feeling like this since I had the intention to start a business, and it's really holding me back.
When I started looking for a job as a fresh graduate I found this person who was helping people like me to get really good job opportunities in tech. This was the beginning of his coaching business, I accepted the program and I actually paid him $5k for his services. Long story short, I was one of his first clients so we became really good friends, plus I was able to land a job that payed way more than expected so I'm 100% happy about this decision.
It's been more than a year now and his business has kept growing but he is only serving certain "segment" of the market. But over the same period of time I've seen that there are a lot of people still struggling with this problem and I know he's not interested in serving them, also I've been learning more about the subject by myself, so I know that I can also serve those people maybe with a different approach that I have in mind. I'm in the process of validiting the market but each time that I work on the idea I feel that I'm betraying him, because I'll work on his niche in a similar business model.
Does that make sense? Some people had told me that I should not be feeling this because business is business and that we can all earn something. But I am scared that if I'm able to grow it, at some point he'll find out, and I don't want to hurt his feelings, but at the same time I'm afraid to ask him about this for the same reason.
Thanks for reading btw!
When I started looking for a job as a fresh graduate I found this person who was helping people like me to get really good job opportunities in tech. This was the beginning of his coaching business, I accepted the program and I actually paid him $5k for his services. Long story short, I was one of his first clients so we became really good friends, plus I was able to land a job that payed way more than expected so I'm 100% happy about this decision.
It's been more than a year now and his business has kept growing but he is only serving certain "segment" of the market. But over the same period of time I've seen that there are a lot of people still struggling with this problem and I know he's not interested in serving them, also I've been learning more about the subject by myself, so I know that I can also serve those people maybe with a different approach that I have in mind. I'm in the process of validiting the market but each time that I work on the idea I feel that I'm betraying him, because I'll work on his niche in a similar business model.
Does that make sense? Some people had told me that I should not be feeling this because business is business and that we can all earn something. But I am scared that if I'm able to grow it, at some point he'll find out, and I don't want to hurt his feelings, but at the same time I'm afraid to ask him about this for the same reason.
Thanks for reading btw!
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