What's the biggest mistake you've made as a founder?

everything i do is a mistake, just trying to learn 😂

being once a co-founder in digital agency, I've made a mistake of hiring first, scaling up later. You should scale up the team after you've scaled up the monthly revenue, not backwards — otherwise, you will get too many expenses with low income at the very beginning and this is a risk of burying a good concept (that's what practically happened then)

Being to naive 😅

Not backing yourself. Getting better at this every day.

- Scaling too soon... - Not taking enough time for customer development - Not listening to mentors' advice

Didnt have a waiting list for launch.

Not taking the time to talk to more customers. We built a B to C platform but we made the product keeping us (three co-founder and some employees) in mind. We did not take the time to speak with our super subscribers (people who benefit a lot more from the product than us) which gave us a low retention rate. Retention is everything while starting out!

With our current product, we would have put more effort into building a community before building the product itself.

Sourcing out our MVP and not doing it in-house which cost us a lot of money and headache. Also, not doing enough research about the partner/advisor we originally teamed with to help us (ended up giving up 15% company share to him while all he did was repeat the same thing over and over without taking one single action to help us).

The co-founder problem....indirectly became a solo founder with no mentor....mayday!