marketing is lacking yeh.

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I really admire you Will

optimize for doing the thing only you can do and get rid of the rest and by "get rid" I mean, build systems that will allow you to not have to grind on things you don't NEED to focus on. this has always been true; llms, when properly used, just allow for far more of this, but even working on developing healthy habits is essentially the same thing. Offloading cognitively-expensive tasks out of your prefrontal cortex. View quoted note →

You sir are not a business person. You're an innovator destined to build novel things

Anon, I’m not entirely sure how the business model would work for compensating a group of content creators (besides user zaps) on Nostr, but have you ever considered hiring people to scout the internet for the best educational and entertaining content to share/post on Nostr? You could even dm the best content creators on X and ask them to post here

I’ve done that all my life, only to have people steal the idea and profit from it

I did 5 years as CEO after 7 as CTO. CEO was managing sales, marketing and operations. It was fun while I was learning things, but ended up realizing that I was not happier than before: 1. I was/am just an average manager compared to an awesome CTO. I felt limited by mind own engineer training. Plently of people are/were better than me in managing other people/taking care of operations. 2. I didn't really enjoy it as much as I enjoy building products and tech stacks. After the learning rush goes, sadness prevails. So, if you are going to go in that journey, just remember that your career must become that something. You are now a business person and not a technical person anymore. Your career is then to build as many profitable companies as you can, regardless of how cool the technical products are. Your source of professional happiness must be to build amazing companies, not just products anymore.

whats the point of making a technical toy that noone uses. I don’t think you can separate marketing/business if you care about building things people will use. (People as in millions+)

Absolutely understand what you mean. I am on the business side of a product team, definitely not that high in the food chain, lol. But still on the business side. Managing stakeholders’ expectations, dealing with this whole growth BS and slowly getting tired of this and approaching more and more the technical side. I’m seriously considering this shift and I think it would make me more happy than dealing the whole time with people whose interest is solely driving profit.

You are right, there is no point. But you don't need to separate them. I never did. My main learning was to understand which part of that problem I want to truly invest my daily hours on. It's like they what they say... The secret to happiness is to enjoy the journey, not to get to the destination. Excelling in the day-to-day activities of different positions will take a tow unless you actually like doing those things. Good thing is that you can always come back if you end up not liking it.

Try being a PIO for public utility… ugh.

You have the experience, just go for a start up. Find a tech partner that has a half baked solution you think you can 10x the marketing/sales to be your founder. There are a LOT of them out there. As a founder, you can just cut all that crap and make your own rules, hopefully building a team that is also happier with those rules.

What about teaming up then?

Yup, pretty much nailed it.

Stay humble, always

jb55

Theres a guy next to me in business class and his wife is in economy. Lmao. @Vanessa would kill me.

Stay humble, always.

jb55

Theres a guy next to me in business class and his wife is in economy. Lmao. @Vanessa would kill me.

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this makes alot of sense

Entrepreneur —> Manager —> Technician should be the core team. Entrepreneur is the vision and innovation. Manager to manage the entrepreneurs vision and delegate it to the technician. Technician to execute the managers instructions. Doing it all is difficult af.

That is a good strategy. I have also been thinking to lean into product development more, since you have to describe to the AI what to build.

Yep. What books have you been diving into?

B2B market could be interesting. Consumer products are hard. You should see the absolute garbage internal apps my employers have shipped over the years. You could apply your existing Damus and Damus-relay frameworks to stand up internal comm & agent platforms for businesses. Build a small agent army for customizing and shipping software products. Deploy with Internal private relays, micro apps, and agents. Every new thing you build could be ported to open source nostr. I see B2B as a way for you to pursue open source nostr dev long term but monetize on your progress along the way. Nostr protocol provides great traceability and permissioning as businesses integrate more agents into their internal ops and comms. It also opens up traceable secure B2B channels for businesses and their agents to connect. I know our largest customers in Life Science are asking us to integrate AI agents into how we optimize executing our materials business with them.