📋Three Pillars to Start Business
This Y Combinator app developer, Lucious McDaniel, created BiteSight. The app was created out of his desire to have his friends share pics and videos of their favorite food spots in their city. Two years later it’s grown to a $5M VC backed app, #2 on the App Store. He speaks on three pillars SUPANOVAS AI pondered when we first birthed our business plan: 1. Your why. We don’t believe the sole mission of creating a business should be money. Connecting with the mission is important. That’s why many business owners get burned out. They’re only in it for the money, and if that doesn’t come in in year 1 or even year 2, they give up. It’s also why some businesses take off quickly, chasing trends, and flame out. After the next big thing comes, and the shiny toy syndrome has faded, many have to completely rebrand and are left lost. The public is fickle, building on trends isn’t enough. Build something that actually lights you up and which you morally, creatively, or fundamentally believe in. 🫶🏾 2. You have to want to serve before you can earn 😉 Focus on your customers/users vs the competition. We promote our brands and products, like any other business, but we love helping women learn how tech and AI can change their lives. We want to empower you, so one day you may not even need us. We’d do this for free, and currently we are until our SUPA Shop goes live 😂 We’re here to help you learn and grow as people, which is why we don’t like affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is often a numbers game, bringing in as many people as possible to create urgency and FOMO to buy something. Once that salesperson earns their money from you, they often don’t care about what happens after you, the student, goes home with their suggested tool, product, service, etc. We want to help you even if that means pointing you towards other Skool groups or admitting we have a knowledge gap someone else may fill better than we can. We’re secure in ourselves, our abilities, and our brand. We don’t see other AI education companies as competition, but people to learn from and collaborate with. The only caveat to that is straight up copying and pasting what we create and selling it❌. (A truth many successful people know is that knowledge is free, and if you truly understand a subject, you can teach it to anyone, from a 5 year old to a PhD level genius. It’s all about putting your own unique spin on it. Nobody can take your shine if you got it like that already ✨)