Alex Balgavy

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Sooraj: Stupid things I did while building my first startup

Stupid things I did while building my first startup

Not taking care of ourselves

Working 15-16 hours a day

Imbalance in decision making

Most of the decisions were often made by a single person, without enough brainstorming. It is not the ideal way of working.

Not moving enough

Not talking to our customers

we never talked to enough users to identify if it was something necessary.

Too much building and not enough selling

Copying from competitors

Copying from the competition will only get you as far as them. Your goal should be to build things that are much better than them if you want to make people switch. 

Lack of vision

We blindly kept building features without any vision. 

A simple question we should ask ourselves is – Who is your ideal user? What do they want to achieve with your product?

We had a bunch of features, probably what five different products would have done. But no single user wanted.