Jake Setterlun says skip the $40,000 website and staff hires. Build something minimal, pitch people directly, and ask what they actually need. Founders who listen and pivot fast start making money before those still perfecting a product nobody asked for.
If you talk to any entrepreneur, their first business did not just take off as a crazy success. They changed their offer, they changed what they did, they tested things out. If you're trying to raise $40,000 so you can pay somebody $10,000 to build you a website and hire an employee for your first business, you're burning time. You, you could be used a lot, a lot better by just throwing something up and, and start talking to people, start pitching people. Ask people what they want because you'll find out really quickly that if you're offering social media marketing and people want business, they want leads, they want appointments, or maybe they want branding or a social media manager, You can quickly change up what you do and start selling that very quickly versus having something that's just this grand old big brand and all this stuff just to find out that what you're making, you know, isn't actually wanted by the industry. So
