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by wh-uws 2029 days ago
I thought I was smarter than I was and I was trying to do a lot by myself. It didn't work and my ego made me not admit it wasn't working far longer than I wish I had spent on it.

It was all a very humbling experience.

In the future

1) recruiting at least 1 other person to work on anything like a startup with me. The bar for me is can I get at least 1 other person to work on this and do I have a plan to get to the first 5? If not I'm not doing it.

Worse case you build a great team and have a good time with them making something and hopefully get acqihired or better. If you're by yourself and it doesn't work out you're likely just getting another job...

2) Recognize what your strengths are and recruit to fill in the gaps. You only have 24 hours in a day 6 to 8 of which you are sleeping if you want to be effective for the rest at all... So even if you were a super hero at all the things you need to be to make a business successful (hint: you wont be) you will run out of time in the day if you can't get other people to help.

If you can't get ^ in your own project join other people's projects until you can.