Re:Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup
by soorajchandran on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:08AM
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There are some silly, stupid mistakes I've done when going through YCombinator - building my first startup.
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Re:Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup
by Kamic on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:59PM
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Would you fail again?
Re:Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup
by soorajchandran on Thursday November 05, 2020 @04:09AM
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I don't know. I recently sold my second startup. So I'd say that was not a failure.
But that doesn't guarantee all the future ventures will be a success.
Re:Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup
by ApolloRising on Thursday November 05, 2020 @06:28AM
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What was the second one? Just curious what you adapted to make that work.
Re:Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup
by soorajchandran on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:39AM
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It was called Carrom (https://money.yahoo.com/oyster-acquires-carrom-accelerate-gl... )
I have not repeated any of those mistakes I mentioned in the post. I think that itself was enough to take us to a good place. Apart from that it was good timing, a lot of luck and market I knew down under.
Another thing was consistency - we also had lot of ups and down, in fact we stopped operations at some point. But kept going to come out of it. Consistency was the most important thing there.
Re:Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup
by ApolloRising on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:06PM
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A game from my youth :) I'm glad you kept going.