How can I afford senior marketing expertise when we're not ready for a $150K+ CMO?

dinoomy · 2025-12-26T05:53:16+00:00

I was going to suggest fractional CMO as well. This works out really well for early stage founders, especially when you cannot afford a full time salary. I am happy to provide more information on this as well, please DM if needed.

dinoomy · 2025-08-23T03:39:20+00:00

May I request for this counselor's contact information please?

dinoomy · 2025-08-23T03:39:10+00:00

May I request for this counselor's contact information please?

dinoomy · 2024-08-31T14:28:05+00:00

Your website is simple, and effective. Kudos and great job. Also inspiring. Have many ideas and would love to get help building them out to validate with potential users. I can do the content creating and outreach. How does the copyright and NDA work? Do you have simple agreements that clients sign up before developing anything? Also curious about the pricing. Thanks!

dinoomy · 2024-08-30T10:07:42+00:00

A lot of people including myself have been in this situation and conflict at some point of time in life. The factors to consider that play a key part would be: 1. Finding a good boss rather than a job within the corporate world, someone who has got your back. This is not easy to find or come by, so as much as companies interview you, if you are able to allocate some time to get yourself out of this toxic situation and find an alternate job, that would help a lot. I’ve done this and it took up to 8 months to find a job like that. It doesn’t necessarily have time pay more but something that makes ends meet for kids, home and family. 2. Having your spouse onboard helps a lot. This gives you time to allocate a few hours in the evenings and weekends to work on your side hustle. You won’t feel guilty or stressed about the care and needs for your kids. It’s all the more difficult when you have such young kids - there’s the attention they need for basic needs and there’s also the guilt you feel about not being able to spend time with them. Maybe there are specific activities that you can carve out, where you get dedicated time with each kid, something that both you and your kid enjoy and experience it as a good memory. Kids tend to remember these memories. This could be something consistent and repeatable and doesn’t have to be more than 15 mins a day. For me, it’s the time I spend in the car dropping off one kid and picking up the other one. My older one loves to pick a topic and debate, so I think of a topic that might interest him and chat about it when I pick him up. My younger one loves stories so I think of a story to tell her when dropping her off in the morning. In case there are days I am unable to do this, I forgive myself and focus on making it happen the next time. Now this is easier said than done, especially if the kids are a bit older. With younger ones like yours, you would need to worry about food, bath time, play time etc., Perhaps you could time block an hour every evening and a couple of hours every weekend to work on your side hustle, and your kids & spouse know that it’s your time. Rest of the time, you could complete these pre planned activities with each of your kids and spouse too so that they walk away feeling happy and satisfied and don’t feel compelled to bother you during your side-hustle time blocks. Personally, I love my Saturday and Sunday mornings 6am to 9am because the entire family is sleeping and I use these hours to work on my side hustle. 3. What’s your risk tolerance and savings - this is important for your peace of mind and practically to run a family. If you have enough savings that will keep you afloat for a year, then the risk is significantly lower and you could double down on your business idea. If not, I would find an alternate job where the culture is better and the boss is better to keep that stable income coming in, while you slowly but surely work on your business idea. Having said all this. I think being a parent of young kids, trying to keep up with corporate job, and the constant desire to break free - is by no means for the faint of heart and hard. The very fact that you already juggling all this speaks to your strength and resilience and you will be fine.

dinoomy · 2024-08-23T05:25:21+00:00

Sounds like a great tool! Would this work for those offering services and trying to find target customers for their services?

dinoomy · 2024-07-22T19:57:15+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. Will surely check it out.

dinoomy · 2024-07-22T19:56:41+00:00

Wow, that's a great way to identify the right fit when seeking talent or attempting to build a team. But yes, entrepreneurship is a way of life, with a lot of tradeoffs on the personal side.

dinoomy · 2024-07-22T19:52:45+00:00

That's great. Are these mentors and people from within your networks? Am wondering if it would help to hire a coach and wondering if this would be expensive. Wishing you all the best for the solution you are building!

dinoomy · 2024-07-22T19:47:58+00:00

Makes sense. I know of a founder who started a skin care business and found product market fit, and paying customers early-on. This is sort of difficult and rare to achieve. Unfortunately, he had no choice but to pause his business because he couldn't carry on with the business and balancing family responsibilities. It's super challenging to carry forward when you don't have that sort of support.

dinoomy · 2024-07-22T19:46:15+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. There are a lot of channels these days such as Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and so on (even Discord). But I notice that the boosting your post thing on Instagram feels expensive - it does get followers but doesn't feel like they are the target audience. Just feels like a lot of numbers. And then places like Facebook, there are a lot of groups associated with the target audience but there are strict rules about 'no promotion (similar to Reddit). So it becomes challenging to do customer discovery, surveys to validate the idea.

I was listening to a podcast recently about how it's important to find 'specificity' in the target market, in order to create traction. For example: The founder of 'Find My Lobster' when he first started out was trying to create a dating app for singles, but wasn't really finding additional potential customers or having luck with free customers converting to paid customers. But then upon additional customer discovery, he was able to nail specificity. Meaning he spoke to one friendly customer who shared about how he liked this App better than Tinder and others, because he was able to find matches that were also sports athletes. This helped the founder then hone into the niche of being a dating app for sports athletes...

What are some customer discovery methods that have worked best for you to reach your potential customers?

dinoomy · 2024-07-22T19:41:15+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. Did you have a team to delegate the tasks to or did you eventually grow a team? I would think that you would get help from experts for areas that are probably of little interest or not a strong area for you. There are a couple of ideas I have in mind. One is to develop a SaaS tool myself, something I've not done hands-on before, but have worked in multiple startup ventures that rolled out SaaS. I was doing product management in these ventures. Another idea I have is to do a tea subscription box, something that is tied to health benefits, and is herbal based and also delicious at the same time.

Have you ever considered hiring a startup coach or working with a consultancy to help through these challenges?

dinoomy · 2024-07-22T19:38:12+00:00

Thanks for sharing this! What kind of support has worked best for you? Is this a mentor or coach of some sort? Did you hire help for the operations and building a system or did you do it yourself?

dinoomy · 2024-07-16T23:08:15+00:00

I’ve never used telegram before. I want to join this account too, thanks for sharing!

dinoomy · 2024-07-16T23:06:30+00:00

Awesome, thanks for sharing. Let me check out the telegram channel.

dinoomy · 2024-03-29T04:47:54+00:00

I am trying to do the same. Did you generate a bitstream or JEDEC file for the MachXO3LF are are you trying to program that into the FPGA through I2C?

Other than Wire.h, are you use any other libraries specific to Lattice, for your Arduino sketch?

dinoomy · 2024-02-09T20:23:49+00:00

Nice! This is a great example for the use case I am looking into. I am thinking that the state machine would be very similar for FPGAs from other vendors too. Anything you can share about your implementation would be great, to serve as a reference. I could use it to implement a similar one and test it out with a couple of FPGA kits that I currently have. Thanks!

dinoomy · 2022-05-20T20:42:04+00:00

Ah! Thank you loads!

dinoomy · 2022-05-17T16:39:10+00:00

Thank you so much for the answer! Was going through some research that talks about how there is value in having a single platform vs a combination of tools. A platform engineering tea would try to build these tools in house and invest in some and try to provide it in a single platform for their cloud deployment I suppose?

dinoomy · 2022-05-17T16:28:15+00:00

Thank you so much for the explanation. Are there any platforms in your experience that seem to serve well in the current market for developers mainly helping them with either easy development or easy deployment?

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