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What is your best single advice for first-time founders?
Haq
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We all make plenty of mistakes building our first startup. Share only one single piece of advice you think is the most important for first-time founders.
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Maxwell Davis
Get a group of trusted advisors that can help you through the challenges you're inevitably going to get.
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Clément Jacquelin
Marshmallow Icon Kit
Speak to your customers. Best advice I can give. They give you feedback, motivation, ideas. It's all you need to growth.
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Rahul Jain
SocialBoat
Have a thick skin, but be very receptive to learning as your first few MVPs will probably (definitely) not work.
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Haq
Here is mine: "Get out the building from day one." It basically means to meet potential customers asap to get feedback and validation.
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Amarnath Nagula
Have a technical expert on the board of directors or have them as a mentor. :)
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