What is the most difficult thing for you in building a startup?

Julia Demyanchuk

1yr ago

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And how do you cope with these difficulties?

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David J. Kim

Co-Founder of Between

Making something people want + ensuring defensibility.

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@between_team 👌

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@between_team Hello, David! We launched today with the new product ICANSELL, could you support us please 🙏 (we are on the landing page with the yellow logo). Thank you!

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Siddhesh Lokare

Building Wylo

Being able to sustain and innovate without getting paid for a long time

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@siddhesh_lokare1 Oh, yes, I know what you mean... But I believe that we all will have a great future and success with our projects!

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@siddhesh_lokare1 Hello, Siddhesh! We launched today with the new product ICANSELL, could you support us please 🙏 (we are on the landing page with the yellow logo). Thank you!

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Misha Krunic

Apart from the financial aspects, I would say the most difficult things are staying motivated, organizing yourself, and finding people to help you with testing (ie. finding beta users for my project botmenot.com ) As for how I'm coping with them, to be honest, I think that the value I can bring is keeping me going! How about you?

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@price2spy Yes, I absolutely agree, we have the same problem with beta users, always trying to find new ways how to attract them and of course, sometimes lose all our motivation. But, yes, understanding that all this can be useful for people and our new achievements (maybe now they are small, but it doesn't matter) motivate us again and again. Good luck!

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Alexey Shashkov

Inspired product maker

The most difficult thing for me in building a startup is getting traction.

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@shashcoffe yesss, the same case!

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Alexey Shashkov

Inspired product maker

@julia_demyanchuk Julia, have you already read the book «Traction» by Gabriel Weinberg?

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@shashcoffe Not yet! Do you recommend it?

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Alexey Shashkov

Inspired product maker

@julia_demyanchuk Yes. I'm reading it now and I like it.

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@shashcoffe I will try, thank you!

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Zied Hamdi

Entrepreneur since 2000

The most difficult thing for me is by far creating a community: through all my life I developed a negative opinion about talking and not doing because I saw many people talking without doing anything, or worse, stealing the work of subordinates because they talk well and know how to present the information. Building a community is, by essence, talking and exchanging opinions (which I would normally perceive as "doing nothing"). So I have to convince myself that writing this comment for example will bring value to someone :-)

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Lalit Tyagi

CEO @ www.brightdirectories.com

The right mix of the team is the biggest challenge. They have to resonate with your vision

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@lalit_mrt 👍 We all want to find a dream team! 🚀

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Lalit Tyagi

CEO @ www.brightdirectories.com

@julia_demyanchuk yes and very tough to find but need to find and aligned them with you

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@lalit_mrt Good luck!

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Mia Pham

Marketing Strategist @ EcomSolid

For me, the uncertainty and the self-doubt that comes along. Some days I am confident wearing different hats but some days I'm not sure what I'm doing and the anxiety eats at me. In those days, I look for help and wait till it passes.

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@mia_pham Sometimes I have the same feeling!

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Julia Demyanchuk

Marketing & Growth

@mia_pham Hello, Mia! We launched today with the new product ICANSELL, could you support us please 🙏 (we are on the landing page with the yellow logo). Thank you!

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