Followup: Ask HN: Struggling to pay rent this month. Can I help you with a gig?
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813746 I wanted to share with HN what happened, since a lot of these "hey, help me" posts go unanswered. I was able to successfully pay rent thanks to a few quick gigs that came my way. I was able to work about $2k, a comfortable position while I decide what my next move is. Said invoice remains unpaid. I'm now a debt collector. There are options to consolidate, but the amount is in excess of $25k which makes things difficult. I do have contracts in place, and counsel I can lean on, but it’s an incredibly exhausting and lengthy process. As a 24-year-old dev-shop founder I have learned my lesson. I'll require pre-paid invoices from here on. There’s more to the story, but in short, I've wound things down after my co-founder (design/sales) unexpectedly left us in early Q2 2015. The response was ove
Why it failed
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813746 I wanted to share with HN what happened, since a lot of these "hey, help me" posts go unanswered. I was able to successfully pay rent thanks to a few quick gigs that came my way. I was able to work a
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- _whynow
- Ended
- 2016
- Source
- hackernews