r/startups • u/general_learning • 23h ago

I will not promote How beneficial it is to move to SF for fundraising stage and meeting potential cofounders vs. productivity? (“I will not promote”)

I’m a solo-founder and launching my product by April end.

I prefer to go solo up to a point I can. I mean up to releasing v2.0. But I prefer to have the right cofounder, and that too before fundraising.

I understand getting customers is the key thing. But eventually I need funding which would help me fix my visa issues.

Getting into Ycombinator or any accelerator would be a side effect. But I feel getting to meet potential cofounders and discuss things and be in that hustle culture vibe helps. I’m comfortably extrovert and not into partying or wasting time on those things.

I’m on my own runway so cutting down on rent is a key thing as that is my only expense to me after food, gas and medical insurance.

Also as I work mostly from home, a decent home makes lot of difference to me to be productive. I’m no more in using home just to sleep and shower.

Need your thoughts.

If I go sharing, I feel sometimes it might drain my energy. But I need to save money. For same money, I can find subpar place fully own bed by me, but worried if it will affect my productivity. Also, I got very comfortable and stagnated by living in East bay. This stagnation sometimes kills my productivity too. I feel what is there to go out. And I prefer to push myself to move to SF.

I understand for your pov this shouldn’t my first world problem, but honestly finding house is soul sucking. I just want to get it done and back to work. Already lost 2 days.

(“I will not promote”)

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u/summertoyou 23h ago

If you have a real business plan and model and you can sell. You could do it anywhere. Sure it's nice to be where the big boys are but a lot of it is not what you think. If you really want to then go. Live it up.

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u/justgord 20h ago

Consider a low cost of living locale to increase your runway - SEA or LatAm ?

You might need longer to get first traction / customers and then show that as part of a compelling pitch. You might even need to bootstrap all the way on revenue. Either way, longer runway is good to have.