Ask HN: How did you start a business? What was the first step?
What was your first step to start a business or startup.
Was it side project? or was it hobby? or was it remote work?
Did you just left the job or pursue it? or you grow your business first?
I wanted to do business but I do not know where to start. what did you do as a first thing to start a business?
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[ 139 ms ] story [ 499 ms ] threadThere are many many many business ideas that are hard to generate a single dollar of revenue off of because the problem you're solving is not big enough.
I'm in the cannabis point-of-sale space. The problem I was solving was inventory management for a single store I knew. If could help him track his numbers better, that was worth money to him (because he would save money for his business), and he was willing to pay $100/month for that right off the bat.
If I was solving something like, have a cool iPad display to show your products to your customers, that wouldn't be worth any money. It's not solving a big enough problem.
As we scaled, our value propositions shifted from a micro-scale more towards government compliance. Now we charge $500/month because we are solving a bigger problem.
Long story short: find a problem people are willing to pay for. If nobody's willing to pay, that's because the problem isn't big enough.
Take Uber, for example, they had a simple idea, but since it solved people’s problem, it became famous. Also, you don’t necessarily have to launch a global business start small to try to come up with a solution that will help the local and then you can make it big if you want
for ideas I have to say now launching a business is easier then ever there are so many options now you can start a salon and allow people to book your services from apps, you can also start a logistics business or taxi service, etc
you can also get ideas for your business through this website: https://www.odtap.com/