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Hey Jared & Trevor

I'm working on a few different projects all of which I think could become viable companies but having a hard time deciding which to focus on. I've already seen interest from relevant parties in each of the separate projects.

I think the hardest one but also the one with the most growth potential would be a project I'm working on to provide management tools (similar to the stuff a ceo might use) to high level government officials. However, with the way that government contracts are handled I wonder if this is even a reasonable industry to target.

Secondly I have two different projects that focus on College Students, where I would be selling solutions to the Colleges themselves. The first project is an art application that allows users to upload art in any medium and be seen by other students. This would allow them to easily build fan bases by taking advantage of pre-existing school connections.

The other idea is similar but focuses on user generated events. It tackles the question of how does one find interesting things to do, in a new area, when you don't know anyone. And has certain measures in place to help alleviate the awkwardness of trying to join pre-existing groups.

Thanks




College art students vs gov’t officials. It’s hard to think of two more different kinds of customers.

Selling to gov’t is hard, because they have a slow and heavyweight purchasing process. Selling to colleges is hard for the same reasons, and also they have small budgets. Selling management tools is very hard, because you have to get people to change the way they work. It’s very very hard to get senior officials to change their process.

If your business works, you’ll spend 1/3 of your waking hours for 10+ years talking to your customers. You can only sustain this if you sincerely like working with them. Whom would you rather spend that much time with?


These are very good points and kind of why I'm debating which way to go. I have a few ways to pivot out of the college market even if I start there so I may explore that some more. As far as management tools go, I'd largely be competing with Excel spreadsheets, and meetings. Anyway thanks, I appreciate the insights.


The last one seems like a problem because I'm not sure someone would pay. but you could test that out. So, if your relying on advertisers you need to get really large users counts and minimal revenue coming in at first. my opinion only.




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