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What were your worst mistakes the first time you founded?

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It's not my first time, but I've sometimes the impression that I do the same mistakes again and again without recognizing it.
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Anamika Chaudhary
This is my first time with entrepreneurship so I guess I will know in a few years!! 😅 But thanks for the thread, i can at least learn other people's mistakes
@anamika_chaudhary2 welcome Anamika, I hope we learn both from people here
Tim J
We took advice from our investors to heart and it steered us away from building something either of us would use.
@timbjones What is your conclusion based on this experience?
@jiebu_li @sreekanth850 don't understand?
Sean Kane
Building for scale in the initial developments, before fully proving the model. Yes, it would have avoided some refactoring, but ultimately it put the cart before the horse.
@sean_kane1 haha, yes I understand that problem entirely. Thank you, I will ever have this funny pic before my inner eyes: "the cart before the horse". Ok, I'm perhaps also driving with such kind of vehicle at the moment... now we have to learn in the middle of the manoeuvre to make an elegant turn around, without losing track while accelerating speed.
Paco Chim
Spend to much time designing the product instead of building it
@francisco_chim What is in your understanding the difference between designing and building?
Paco Chim
@timz_flowers Well, i spend to much time with trying to make the pixel perfect layout on Figma insted of take the code and start to building the thing.
@francisco_chim totally understand that, ok thank you
Paco Chim
Hire a freelancer dev that steel al the work and sell to other people
@francisco_chim Oh, that's a really bad experience, sorry to hear that, Paco. What is your takeaway from that event? Could you tell me, what you decided to change in future projects to avoid these kinds of occurrences?
Paco Chim
@timz_flowers Hi sam, well that was a very dramatic experience cause i lost all my savings BUT, i learn in the bad way this: Trust in your capabilities and learn the stuff that can save you a lot of money, so, i learn to code, to build my next thing and in this way the things get easier, because i can build a team of devs and communicate with them in a natural way. So that steel of this guy, change my life.
@francisco_chim Great to hear that. So you grew through a bad experience to a person with more skills and capacities to explore your real potentials. I'm sure you will succeed on a much higher level, thanks to your insightful attitude to learn from bad events for the good.
Ahmed Elsamadisi
I read books! I go why would someone do that. I make the mistake and think ... I should write a book and tell people about these mistakes. The biggest mistake is not taking care of yourself. If you are CEO your energy is so important and affects the team so always remember that when you are pushing yourself. Today, we launched on ProductHunt and my team literally told me that I need to make sure I sleep in because when I don't sleep enough I get anxious and that leads to the team being anxious.
@ahmed_elsamadisi Ahmed, what is the product you have launched?
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