What I have learned about startups from building my own Build and launch fast, charge your customers and assess the situation. Talk to customers, understand the problem you are solving deeply Do not buy into conventional wisdom Use first principles VC isn’t always the path, again don’t buy into conventional wisdom Talk to your users and iterate accordingly You don’t need to hire a ton, often small is better and more productive Buy into Paul graham, Steve blank and others Always learn from your failures. Iterate, pivot if necessary Find market gaps, fill them in. Aka identify opportunities Be delusional yet realistic at the same time Constantly test new things Learn from your users, understand how they are using your product. Don’t get obsessed with adding features, start with doing one thing really well and then adding features on top of that. When marketing never do ads, terrible conversions. Ideally if you build a really great product your users will do the marketing for you. |