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What its like being a new founder/owner
Hi guys, I am a new founder of an AI agency, Think Bridging AI.
My journey started last year in July when I suddenly had to drop out of 3rd year Mechanical engineering. Honestly, I always wanted to start my own thing and so I was quite excited to finally try it out. Unfortunately, the reality hit, when all those, 'get rich fast', 'get leads fast', and 'get your first customer in 7 days' Youtube channels burst my bubble.
It's not that easy. I still have a client or 2 in the pipeline which took 6 months to get, 100s of emails sent, and stress levels through the roof.
"I hate AI Chatbots!"
Same, they sound robotic. It's 10x better speaking to a human.
Crazy, but every new project, started with I hated it and I prefer the old way. Give it a couple of months and the value outweighs the complaints.
Proposal for PH founders
Hey all, I've been in startups for 10 years (my last company Outbound was YC-W15, acquired by Zendesk) but my new company splotch.ink is my first on PH! We launched last week and I was very impressed with the community, feedback and results.
I want to invest in this community, so I'm proposing this idea: I'd love to do 20 min interviews with other founders where we talk through key plays/journeys for your business. I'll diagram them out and write them up as a post that we can use as co-marketing to customers and investors. The emphasis will be on key plays that differentiate you from competitors in your UX and ops. Reply if you're interested.



