The startup failed because so much time was spent consulting to bring in revenue to pay meager wages, and not enough time was spent on building product.
If you're going to fund your company with consulting, make sure you have a very strict rule about how much time you spend consulting. At the end of the day, you need to build product.
No a different startup. I internalized the lesson from that startup and made sure that after I did the one consulting job for MinOps that we didn't do any more consulting, unless the job can be completed in less than a day.
If you're going to fund your company with consulting, make sure you have a very strict rule about how much time you spend consulting. At the end of the day, you need to build product.