Your top 3, all time, startup horror stories?
Jim Morrison
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Jim Morrison@jimbomorrison
I'll start!
1️⃣ Building a product you don't use yourself.
2️⃣ Building a complex solution, when a simple one would do.
3️⃣ Not having a clear "why".
I've gotta admit - "2️⃣" gets me every time. 🤦♂️
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@jimbomorrison for me, I guess it would be:
- not being able to find an available Twitter handle
- lots of followers but no engagement
- carefully crafted posts being ignored but something I threw up on a whim doing really well.
(I do a little social media management, in case you were wondering.)
Few from me from my startup experience 🍻
- Long term and short term goal planning can contribute big to success
- It's easy to get distracted building something at length that doesn't really contribute much back to to the business
- Ads can rapidly drain a marketing budget
@jasonscott yeah, that #2 is a killer. I have to really, really work on myself to make small iterations. A #buildinpublic approach really helps with that.