If you could give only 1 advice to yourself at the beginning of your startup, what would it be?

Advice: Prepare your MVP to generate money ASAP, not growth. Why? By following the growth in the early days, you may end up burning money and not earning a dime. You can have a startup with millions of users and yet lose money. These will force you to close the doors or raise more money and lose the share of your startup too early. in the early days of your startup look for ways to make money from your early users and then focus on growth so you can support that growth.

Define your mission and values early on and never compromise on them. It will help you with decision making in the long run!

For B2B - validate your idea through sales, as quickly as possible but then pivot to building the marketing engine. Start building the user acquisition system early, leverage it to test messaging, hone in on ideal customer profiles, refine the product and, of course, feed sales.

Don't run for the perfection of features. Build them and roll them out so that you can gather feedback at an early stage.

1 - Things don't need to be shiny at the beginning. I found myself overbuilding stuff that had no traction, no user, and ended up with a great product that zero people wanted. Now I start with reaching out to potential users and maybe getting revenues before building. That helps a lot in staying motivated, too! 2 - Be consistent. Just keep improving. It's crazy how that compounds really fast!

Identify your target market first, talk to them, and then create exactly what they want, instead of creating the product first and seeing who needs it.

I've built many startups, some of which have achieved hypergrowth like Uphold, Airtm, and Cadoo. I wish I'd built an incentivized community of collaborators with skin in the game prior to building an MVP on all of them. Community is the platform for your Network. The two M's in community stand for memes and money. That's why I built Slyk-- to make it easy for any project, startup, founder, or community to reward growth with their own coin and redeem that coin for whatever they want to offer the world. Build something people want by rewarding them for helping you build the thing they want. Makerbox needs a CPC (coin-powered community) ASAP.

There’s a difference between moving quickly and rushing. You should move quickly to text a concept, start conversations with your potential users, pitch, etc. that said, rushing just means you haven’t put the effort in before going out and testing. Do the work, take it seriously, just accelerate your pace. Avoid shortcuts.

Narrow your focus. Don't expand into multiple things. Find that 'sharp value proposition' as fast as you can.

Believe in your gut feeling and do not let others influence over your mastery.