15 Lessons i have learned from building my own Startup.

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to share some of the lessons I have learned from building a startup, hope it helps. Feel free to subscribe.

Build and launch fast, charge your customers, and assess the situation.

Talk to customers, understand the problem you are solving deeply before building.

Do not buy into conventional wisdom; constantly question these kinds of things.

Using first principles will help you build a better solution.

VC isn’t always the path; again, don’t buy into conventional wisdom, often, bootstrapping is the way.

Talk to your users and iterate accordingly. Make sure to listen to a lot of them before adding features; you do not want to end up building custom solutions.

You don’t need to hire a ton; often, small is better and more productive, and you get more done.

Buy into Paul Graham, Steve Blank, and others who have paved the way.

Always learn from your failures; they often teach you the most.

Iterate, pivot if necessary, do not be afraid to change something.

Find market gaps, fill them in. Aka identify opportunities and gaps in the market.

Be delusional yet realistic at the same time.

Constantly test new things, a/b testing, seeing what works, what doesn’t.

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 does ads, terrible conversions. Ideally, if you build a really great product, your users will do the marketing for you. But typically reach out to your users manually and recruit them.

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