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Isa Tanis

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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Girish Gilda
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.
Anastasia Savchyn
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
Isa Tanis
@anastasiia_savchyn definitely 💯
Aaron
@anastasiia_savchyn So true! Thanks for sharing.
Stephanie Cameron
Focus! The no's you say are almost as important as the yes. Chose your priorities and go for them
Cara (Borenstein) Marin
@stephanie_cameron +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.
Isa Tanis
@stephanie_cameron Got it! Thanks for the reminder.
Aaron
Be very adaptable. Things change very fast and almost nothing goes on according to the plan.
Isa Tanis
@aaronnotion Flexibility allows us to navigate unexpected changes and seize new opportunities.
Focus on revenue more than growth.
Isa Tanis
@senthil99nathan Both of them are important 🥲
Cara (Borenstein) Marin
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.
Isa Tanis
@stash_new Absolutely! Sometimes less is more.
Marc Andre
My biggest lesson is the power of networking. It doesn't matter what type of business you have, a strong network is gold.
Khul Anwar
Understanding audience's problem and frequency is very very important
Deniz Savkay
Doing every aspect of the business ourselves is much better than paying money to 3rd parties to do stuff for us
Isa Tanis
@deniz_savkay Yes, no one cares about your business as much as you do. But when you do it this way, sustainability problems arise.
Deniz Savkay
@isatanis yes, we solved sustainability issue by slowly hiring new people, although part-time
Soumil Rathi
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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