From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.
- Find a great founding team: One person is almost never enough. Team up with one or two other people who have skills synergistic – not overlapping – with your own, but with similar goals and passions. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers.
- Focus on the product: Forget everything else and just get your product out the door. No office. No phone system. No hiring. No press. No legal muck. No raising money. No looking for partnerships. If no one ever uses your product, you have no value. Launch fast and light, and listen to your users for feedback.
- Get good mentors: A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up.
