Hi HackerNews,
TL;DR - Business is dying. Desperately need your help.
Full disclosure: My name is Feldo and I am new to this site. A friend recommended I post here. Apologies if this is not allowed.
My business is on the verge of death, literally. We are a local Bay Area food startup that caters to startups, specifically Asian Fusion & Satays. Most of our business has been through two catering agencies but due to a mistake that was all my fault, we were recently dropped from 1 yesterday, which was the majority of our business. We were already negative before this. We can't survive much longer like this and being completely honest, this is dragging me near to tears. I've worked hard for years trying to get to where we are and pivoted this food business at least twice already in 3 years. We are only 3 guys.
Admittedly all of this is entirely my fault as I haven't tried as hard as I could in the past to do more guerrilla marketing, becoming complacent with our stream of clients through the agencies.
I am trying to correct course as soon as possible now and fix all of this. I've made many mistakes along the way and I own up to that. But at this point, I might not even have a business if we don't do something fast.
Our website: http://www.sataysfied.com/
Our Yelp page: http://www.yelp.com/biz/sataysfied-catering-san-mateo
Most of the customers that have tried us, loves our food. All of our past business were through these 2 catering agencies. Moving forward, I will try to build direct clientele with startups more and hustle, starting immediately.
I'm not asking for a hand out but I am pretty much begging, if you are in the Bay Area, and have a startup, work for one, or know people, I ask that you give us a chance to cater to you and/or help spread the word. We can use all the business we can get. We cater to startups of all sizes. If you have any feedback or anything, please leave a note.
All the best,
Feldo
TL;DR - Business is dying. Desperately need your help.
Full disclosure: My name is Feldo and I am new to this site. A friend recommended I post here. Apologies if this is not allowed.
My business is on the verge of death, literally. We are a local Bay Area food startup that caters to startups, specifically Asian Fusion & Satays. Most of our business has been through two catering agencies but due to a mistake that was all my fault, we were recently dropped from 1 yesterday, which was the majority of our business. We were already negative before this. We can't survive much longer like this and being completely honest, this is dragging me near to tears. I've worked hard for years trying to get to where we are and pivoted this food business at least twice already in 3 years. We are only 3 guys.
Admittedly all of this is entirely my fault as I haven't tried as hard as I could in the past to do more guerrilla marketing, becoming complacent with our stream of clients through the agencies.
I am trying to correct course as soon as possible now and fix all of this. I've made many mistakes along the way and I own up to that. But at this point, I might not even have a business if we don't do something fast.
Our website: http://www.sataysfied.com/
Our Yelp page: http://www.yelp.com/biz/sataysfied-catering-san-mateo
Most of the customers that have tried us, loves our food. All of our past business were through these 2 catering agencies. Moving forward, I will try to build direct clientele with startups more and hustle, starting immediately.
I'm not asking for a hand out but I am pretty much begging, if you are in the Bay Area, and have a startup, work for one, or know people, I ask that you give us a chance to cater to you and/or help spread the word. We can use all the business we can get. We cater to startups of all sizes. If you have any feedback or anything, please leave a note.
All the best,
Feldo