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		rollcat on July 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to price your first enterprise custome... > They make demands, you have no real choice but to meet them because it's such a big chunk of your revenue that you can no longer make payroll without them. Would you have been better off never having had that money in the first place?

DoreenMichele on July 15, 2023 [–]

Possibly. You could have made money from other clients who weren't going to do that to you.

There are only 24 hours in the day. Time spent serving them is time not spent on other clients.

One piece of advice I've seen: Diversify your client base if you are seeing too much of your income from one or a few clients.

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