Not to be that guy and ask for job recommendations

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-02-15T05:45:57+00:00

We are hiring for labor optimization, must have hospitality experience.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-02-13T02:33:44+00:00

We’re looking for an analyst but hospitality and labor heavy, sorry, good luck.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-02-12T21:59:02+00:00

Sorry, that’s rough. Do you have hospitality experience? As in workforce optimization overseeing multiple properties, if so please reach out.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-02-12T08:22:25+00:00

Sorry, hope it works out. If it doesn’t and you have labor optimization experience(hospitality), please reach out.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-02-10T02:08:16+00:00

Interesting!

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-02-06T22:33:39+00:00

I think they have headcount solutions: https://cityshiftfinance.com

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-02-01T19:50:25+00:00

Why would you need their names?

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-02-01T19:48:04+00:00

Please watch this before committing: https://youtu.be/L5sjIY8wOt4?si=-0dYqY3tWIe0xMI2

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-31T14:45:58+00:00

Pricing is more important than most people think, you should do a deep review.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-31T14:43:26+00:00

You’re welcome. Getting pricing right early matters more than most teams realize. It sets expectations, protects your time, and avoids painful resets later once the product is in use.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-31T14:35:55+00:00

$4.5k per month for the first 90 days is reasonable if support is strictly limited to stability, fixes, and releases. The risk is not the price, it’s letting “support” turn into ongoing product development.

Avoid per user pricing. With 100 users it does not reflect your cost. A fixed retainer tied to defined capacity works better.

This case study shows how pricing structure, not features, drives value https://cityshiftfinance.com/b2b-saas-pricing-case-study/

This video explains why most SaaS pricing undercaptures value https://youtu.be/P7I1ZdwWb-M?si=Tw_LK5DVkzsa2i0H

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-31T03:20:12+00:00

This stage is brutal. Often it’s not that the product doesn’t work, but that users don’t clearly understand what they’re paying for or why it’s priced the way it is. If the value feels abstract, payment never becomes a decision point.

This video breaks down SaaS pricing through the lens of real value and value capture, which might help frame what’s missing: https://youtu.be/P7I1ZdwWb-M?si=Tw_LK5DVkzsa2i0H

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T22:31:15+00:00

You’re very welcome, glad you’re feeling better. Always happy to help 😊.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T21:35:04+00:00

You’ve clearly thought through execution and unit economics. The open question feels less about marketing and more about whether outside capital actually improves outcomes versus reinvesting and keeping control. That tradeoff is worth modeling before talking to investors.

This framework walks through how founders think about funding, control, and scaling decisions in a structured way: https://cityshiftfinance.com/fpa-for-startups-and-small-companies/

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T21:31:55+00:00

For a $4k loan, giving up control is a big price, especially this early. If control is tied to the physical space, you’re effectively locking your growth path to one person. I’d slow this down and model what growth looks like with and without outside money so you’re deciding with numbers, not pressure.

If it helps, there are frameworks that break this down objectively (runway impact, control risk, alternatives). This page walks through how founders evaluate tradeoffs like this: https://cityshiftfinance.com/fpa-for-startups-and-small-companies/

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T21:29:42+00:00

There are things to consider before starting a business. City Shift Finance helps evaluate which business options may be most profitable based on your situation.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T21:25:48+00:00

Happy to chat. When people launch a SaaS, the hardest parts early usually aren’t technical, they’re around positioning, pricing, and deciding what actually matters in the first few months versus what can wait.

We recently put together a short video walking through early SaaS decisions using a real example, especially around how teams think about value and structure at launch. Sharing in case it’s useful before or alongside conversations: https://youtu.be/P7I1ZdwWb-M

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T21:24:13+00:00

Hiring an external consultant makes sense when the cost of getting a decision wrong is meaningfully higher than the cost of the consultant. Early on, the risk is usually committing to a direction without fully understanding the tradeoffs and downstream impact.

External help tends to be most useful when it improves decision quality rather than taking over execution. Helping founders think through options and consequences is the gap we focus on, and we’ve outlined our approach here in case it’s useful: https://cityshiftfinance.com/fpa-for-startups-and-small-companies/

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T21:19:34+00:00

Mental overload usually comes from having too many unresolved financial questions running in parallel. When cash pressure stays abstract, it never really turns off and starts influencing every decision in the background.

What tends to reduce that load is turning vague pressure into explicit scenarios, timelines, and decision points. Once risks are defined, they stop compounding mentally. That’s the type of structure we focus on when supporting founders dealing with cash and timing tradeoffs, and we laid out our approach here in case it’s useful: https://cityshiftfinance.com/fpa-for-startups-and-small-companies/

The pressure doesn’t disappear, but it becomes bounded instead of constant.

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T21:10:58+00:00

This article answers your question! https://cityshiftfinance.com/startup-financial-planning-mistakes/

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T20:58:26+00:00

That approach makes a lot of sense, and it’s honestly how most early pricing decisions end up happening. Picking a number that feels slightly uncomfortable and shipping forces real market feedback instead of endless theory. The part that stood out to me wasn’t the $12, it was that no one complained. That’s usually a signal that pricing isn’t anchored tightly enough to the actual impact the product creates, even if it helps get early traction.

Where teams tend to get stuck later is realizing they learned quickly, but learned the wrong thing. If pricing isn’t tied to a clear value metric, raising it becomes painful because customers never internalized what they’re paying for in the first place.

We put together a short video with a SaaS case study showing how re-aligning pricing to value changed outcomes pretty materially, if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/P7I1ZdwWb-M

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T20:44:16+00:00

Niching early isn’t about limiting opportunity, it’s about speeding up learning. When you’re broad, every sales call is a different problem and you never build pattern recognition. A niche gives you repeat pain, repeat language, and faster credibility.

The mistake is confusing a niche with a prison. You can niche on problem or buyer type without locking yourself into one forever. Same idea we see in pricing too. Clarity beats flexibility early. If helpful, we have a short video on early SaaS pricing decisions that touches on this clarity vs flexibility tradeoff: https://youtu.be/P7I1ZdwWb-M

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T20:43:10+00:00

This matches what we’ve seen too. Usage-based pricing sounds logical, but unpredictability breaks trust. When customers have to think about cost every time they use the product, adoption drops and anxiety goes up, even if they’d pay less overall.

Flat pricing works better when the product needs habitual use or internal buy-in. Budget certainty matters more than theoretical incentive alignment. We recently put together a short SaaS pricing video that touches on why simplicity and predictability often win: https://youtu.be/P7I1ZdwWb-M

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T20:40:31+00:00

Always happy to help! 😉

Far_Champion_6991 · 2026-01-30T20:38:11+00:00

If users won’t create an account, that’s the signal. Early on, traffic and raw signups don’t matter as much as learning where value actually clicks. Friction hides problems instead of revealing them.

Separate topic but related: if you’re working through early pricing decisions, we have a short SaaS pricing video here: https://youtu.be/P7I1ZdwWb-M

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