You lost my respect, when you berated me for Fiverr engagement to help me with CP UI/UX--I think you said "who is he, your boyfriend...". I did it because I was getting zero feedback and you seemed disinterested, bordering on antagonistic to CP. When I started on CP 5 years ago, my intention was to develop it outside WR (our agreement was 50% of my time to WR--it did not include CP), but you said you wanted in and had the bandwidth to product manage it. When it helps WR you show some interest, but no where near the investment it would take to make CP successful. I've invested 5 years on CP development, I'm proud of what I created, but I do not see a realistic path forward.
After 7+ years I conclude that WR is a bad business model. Most SaaS businesses have 2 year runway to launch. We did not have seed funding, so my plan was to work hard and quickly push out MVP to get traction and funding--first release was less than 6 months. Funding did not happen and our VC viability has evaporated at 7 years with $500k burn--serious investors will see your claim of profitability as misleading when they understand the 4 founders are not taking salaries (for me ~$50k over 7y). No VC is interested in walled-garden content in age of Google, especially if not user generated and scalable. The wound care market is fragmented with disparate information needs which makes marketing nearly impossible (8 personas, 15 practice types, 35 roles). Founders risk is significant, if ES decides she wants to pursue something else, WR can't function. I think you are wasting your time (1+ years) with $100k raise and VC funding is not realistic.
What we're doing is not working, so acknowledge the problem and fix it.
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