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What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned on your startup journey so far?

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Calling all founders! 🚀 Share your wisdom with the community and let’s inspire each other to keep pushing boundaries!
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It's important to remember that even if you believe your idea is brilliant, it may not be suitable for everyone. To ensure your product is successful, you should conduct market and user experience research, survey potential users, and ask their opinions
definitely 💯
So true! Thanks for sharing.
Focus! The no's you say are almost as important as the yes. Chose your priorities and go for them
+1 to focus -- in the past I had a tendency to feel rushed which made it difficult to make meaningful steps forward. Now I decide on what matters most and let myself take the time I need to do it well.
Got it! Thanks for the reminder.
Be very adaptable. Things change very fast and almost nothing goes on according to the plan.
Flexibility allows us to navigate unexpected changes and seize new opportunities.
Focus on revenue more than growth.
Both of them are important 🥲
Simplicity. It's tempting to think that adding feature after feature will take you to PMF but the need to add lots of features might be an underlying PMF issue. Choose a small number of things (one?) to change over incumbents and do it really well. Let that shine and be "enough" for your early adopters. If it's not, then choose a different bet.
Absolutely! Sometimes less is more.
My biggest lesson is the power of networking. It doesn't matter what type of business you have, a strong network is gold.
Understanding audience's problem and frequency is very very important
Doing every aspect of the business ourselves is much better than paying money to 3rd parties to do stuff for us
Yes, no one cares about your business as much as you do. But when you do it this way, sustainability problems arise.
yes, we solved sustainability issue by slowly hiring new people, although part-time
One of my biggest mistakes has been to depend on too many people. I've learnt that it's better to understand and manage things by myself at initial stage. This gives a good understanding and hold over the product. Later on delegate the work to those who enjoys it.
Talk to the potential customers. Interact with as many of them as you can and really try to understand the problem you're trying to solve!
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