What's the biggest challenge you're facing with your startup right now? Is it finding customers, building the right product, or something else entirely? What keeps you up at night?

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It is easier to build a perfect product than to sell it

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Selling isn’t the hard part for us, finding good tech people is. It’s better to ship fast and iterate

Current struggle is trying to get this thing off the ground while still working full time. I'm too afraid to pull the trigger and quite my FT job, but I'm at the point where I'm unable to give 100% to either. I'm sure it's time, but fear is holding me back.

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What industry are you in?

Trying to find people who are highly skilled and want to work at a startup. There's less stability and the future is unknown, but highly skilled people are needed.

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Highly skilled also want higher pay, most people aren’t real entrepreneurs, where have you looked

For me it's all about time. I have an amazing company that could do incredible things, but I'm too busy putting food on the table for my kids. I wish there were two of me so I could really focus on what I know would be successful. Or, a live-in nanny would be nice!

Why not hire a live in nanny? Have you looked into it?

I rarely feel settled. There’s always an idea flowing about something new to be done, something existing that can be improved, etc.

Thank you!

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