Turns out it takes more than being great at coding to build a startup. I'd to learn Marketing, Pitching, Emailing etc. skills in my journey which I never thought about before starting up whereas, I thought building a good product would cover that part.
This reminds me of my days teaching test prep classes for Kaplan. At some point in every Kaplan teachers career, there came a point when you'd do the math and realize that Kaplan was charging students $100/hour but only paying you $20. Inevitably a few of the best teachers would try to go out on their own. They soon realized that getting students took a lot of work - putting flyers up on campus, working your network looking for referrals, building a word of mouth reputation. Most ended up failing and coming back or moving on to something else. There were a few that made it big (e.g. Robin from TestMasters) and it turns out that these were not necessarily the best teachers, but they were definitely excellent marketers.
This reminds me of my days teaching test prep classes for Kaplan. At some point in every Kaplan teachers career, there came a point when you'd do the math and realize that Kaplan was charging students $100/hour but only paying you $20. Inevitably a few of the best teachers would try to go out on their own. They soon realized that getting students took a lot of work - putting flyers up on campus, working your network looking for referrals, building a word of mouth reputation. Most ended up failing and coming back or moving on to something else. There were a few that made it big (e.g. Robin from TestMasters) and it turns out that these were not necessarily the best teachers, but they were definitely excellent marketers.