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Aaron O'Leary
What is your biggest learning experience from failure?
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Failure presents great opportunities to learn and some might stick with you. Mine would likely be community first, failing to prioritise community building and nurturing caused my first project to dwindle
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Natalie Karakina
Was afraid to be noisy, extraordinary ----> didn't try anything crazy enough Now – I'm trying to do the first step in 48 hours
Tim Carambat
For me, I had created a tech service that allowed multiple people at the same time to own a domain, but when it was visited you would be redirected to another site depending on who was leading that geographic area. For example you could own example.com in some region and i could in another. Anyone visiting that site in your area would see your site and in my area, the site I set. We could then both advertise with this premium domain for pennies of what it costs IRL. Cool tech, but no one wants to do that. I bit of market research wouldve probably shown me that. Dosent help my launch was during covid where ad dollars evaporated in terms to keep businesses doors open. So in a word - market research and validation before building.
Jijo Sunny
Aaron, how would you bootstrap community activity if you were starting today? Any tool recs? Even a high level answer would be helpful!
Raouf REMIDAN
Failing when the product doesn't find a market is easier to accept than the opposite, in the past, I had to experiment with a startup shut down due to the core team implosion, the hardest part was that we reached 500K, active users, with a 10% per week growth rate... I've learned 2 lessons: 1/ Co-found with like-minded people and aligned visions and interests. 2/ Failure doesn't kill you, it's just one step along your path
Siddhesh Lokare
Firstly, I would like to throw some light on what I think is the meaning of 'failure'. Failure happens when you make a mistake and you don't learn and extract anything out of it. You choose not to look back, not to analyze and not to rearrange. In that sense, I have always learned from my mistakes. Hence I'll tell you what my biggest mistake was. Well, it has to be when I decided not to focus on one niche and try to cover 4-5 of them at the same time for the purpose of penetrating more market verticals. It becomes really hectic and infeasible for the algorithm, users and your team to understand how to optimize and what to prioritize. Hence, from what I could encapsulate, it's really really important to focus on the depth of your startup or your content. Take one niche and leverage as much as you can. Something great will happen. That's my experience!!
Piotr Pawłowski
Probably disqualification from first place at the Olympics, for technical reasons, eg. in kayaking. A wet towel changes the weight to off-regulation.
Nathan Challen
Build products that you yourself need and would use. Build in a domain that you are familiar with and have particular expertise in. The fringes and overlaps of your area of expertise and some other domain are where the opportunities are.
Andrey
My main experience was that the value of failing is overestimated and succeeding is a much more valuable experience.
Abhinav Unnam
Startups are hard and ensuring that one is clear on some of the following aspects is important so the chances of failure can be brought down dramatically. That’s why here are the Startup questions for you to ask before beginning. Founders Vs Investors Understand the difference between them. No part-time co-founding. Founders are a part of the journey, investors have a stake in the journey. Similar financial and intellectual sync, you will not succeed if your motivations are not the same. Hypothesis Vs Validation Get your hypothesis behind startup plan clear. Why are you doing it? Keep updating and regularly check on these notes, imperative to get your shop running. Validation is a series of experiments backing your initial hypothesis. A strong homework and quick answer here is necessary to make either the right pivots or to do course corrections. Culture Vs Strategy Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Marry strategy with execution, have fewer risk points and diligently work to de-risk as many components of the company as possible. KISS: Keep it simple stupid, if you can’t articulate in simple terms, you are missing something. Execution Vs Operations Have KPIs defined for every task? You don’t improve what you don’t measure. Some things take time, don’t try and rush off. Understand the gestation period for the foundational task and don’t scale prematurely. It’s going to be difficult and throw new challenges not anticipated. In the end, execution is all that matters. Hiring Vs Firing Single-handedly the biggest factor in the early stages. Get it wrong and nothing else would matter. Hire for attitude first. Fire if no aptitude. Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton. Hope these startup questions are helpful for you in your beginning phase.
Moritz Wobith
For me it was that the founders where too similar. Both business people but the product was a tech product. Furthermore we our skills where nearly the same what made it difficult to get synergy effects of different skills. Since them I am only working on projects where my founding team is diverse and everyone has different skills in their expertise :)
ahad rehman sojol
1 . Failures are not your enemies, they happen in life. Several people have known failures. In fact they create in your life an opportunity to correct yourself, to regroup yourself, to believe in yourself and to accept the challenge that is in front of you, on your path towards a successful life. 2 . Failures are the best teachers in your life. Everytime you fail, you learn a lesson. A lesson as to where did you go wrong. What you have to do to improve yourself? You learn to correct all errors caused by you. 3 . Failures have a psychological effect in your life. You are sad to have failed but you should be happy that you are still alive to have been offered the opportunity to realise and correct everything that went wrong. 4 . Whilst you fail in life your family may be temporarily be affected by that but it is your family itself will help you to find the best solution to erase the blunder you have committed. At the end of the day it strengthens family ties. 5 . Failures act as a catalyst in life of some people. It just make people react, react towards the positive side of life. Once you have failed , you would become very careful the next time. In fact you will double your vigilance. 6 . Failures make you realise what you have done, what you have lost, what could have been done, what could have been saved. 7 . There is also some fact that failures destroy houses. Your failure to have a successful married life and to have an extra marital affair is the reason for the destruction of your happy married life. Of your happy family. 8 . Some failures make you lose your job. You made your boss lose millions of dollars just by doing a silly mistake. You don't have the right to be pardoned. So you get fired. 9 . Failures are the hard truth of life. You agree or not they come and they will still be coming throughout your life. You have just to be careful. Don't judge too fast,don't do any job without analysing the positive and the negative effects. 10. If there is room for you not to fail then so be it. Have a happy life. To fail means to rise again for the best.
Romain Cernik
Sure @aaronoleary, community for me too is the key to growth without ads but with recognition by people ! For me is to dev a full Saas without asking lead about new feature's interest. Wasting time for the most 😱
Michael Ventures
my biggest learning experience from failure was to embrace it. Far to many of us run away from failure and or not see the true lesson it is teaching us. If we can truly embrace failure then we can truly embrace success
Bruno Teixeira
I think for me it really was understanding who you are. When you devote so much of yourself into something, you loss a bit of the sense of who you are. It gets mixed with what you're building/working on. When that thing fails, it can either break you or help you find yourself. It's a painful journey, that totally worth it.
sab kanaujia
For me, not implementing the lean startup methodology as fully as needed, and building a big portion of the MVP divorced from customer feedback. It resulted in a longer process and more time & money spent to get the product-market-fit post launch. More time we spend validating our idea and use cases upfront with customers who we believe would use the product, more efficient the PMF process is post-launch.
shashidhare
1) We assume a lot and convince self that we are on right path, till we reach the dead end 2) If you are not an expert in the business you are venturing into, better stay at home than experimenting. 3) How you deal with failure is more important than failure itself
Yashika Gupta
At the point when I went through the most exceedingly awful disappointment of my life, I was totally lost and had lost all the certainty I had in myself. It took about an entire year (2020, on account of isolate) for me to mend myself. As it's been said each circumstance has great and awful. In spite of the fact that being at home made me discouraged and I missed my school life, it permitted me to recuperate from quite a while ago. I might want to share what I realized. It will keep going as long as you permit yourself to abide in it. At the point when I fizzled notwithstanding of my work, rather than deduction what precisely was the explanation, I began accusing my karma, my life and continued choosing not to move on. Each time I met somebody I just used to raise the way that I fizzled, automatically. That is the amount I used to consider everything. In any case, as time passed I saw individuals who fizzled with me, who worked more than I could possibly do, making some fine memories while I abided in it the entire time. I figured out how to proceed onward. We can't change what has occurred yet we can attempt to ensure it doesn't occur once more. Self-assurance This is the critical segment of your life which we lose when we bomb which is by and large the thing we ought to keep away from. I lost it so much that I figured I was unable to try and do least difficult of the errands, that I am not implied for anything and everybody is superior to me. In any case, then, at that point I understood that regardless of what you do, regardless of where you remain in the field you need to be in when contrasted with others, in the event that you are superior to your past self , that is achievement. I generally took a gander at what everybody did , look at myself and feel awful. However, when I began to zero in on my little accomplishments and progress, taken a gander at others only for gaining some new useful knowledge and not looking at, I began esteeming myself more. Those little accomplishments fabricate your certainty for the higher perspective tomorrow. Never overlook them. Correlation Ah indeed, this was my most noticeably awful foe up until now. As I referenced above, examination would just slaughter you and cause you to feel substandard. You have your own speed, your own life. A few group have ability, Some individuals have karma and a few group simply need to work savvy and hard. Regardless of what classification you fit in, you should deal with yourself and care about no body else. So overlook my mates? Obviously not! Do notice them, not for contrasting but rather for gaining some new useful knowledge. On the off chance that somebody has a superior technique for accomplishing a work, attempt it, add your own turns. Never feel tragic that another person understood what you didn't. Everybody learns sooner or later of their life. The ball is in your court now. Never feel sub-par on the grounds that your schoolmate or friend or partner knew more than you. Simply learn and apply. Tolerance Okay, presently this doesn't occur over night. It may requires months or years. Your old propensities will come up, your disappointment will frequent you yet no one but you can handle your brain. It is dependent upon you how you do it. It won't be simple. Try not to surrender. This will simply prompt an ever increasing number of disappointments. In the event that you attempt, you may very well get an opportunity to be the place where you need to be. You unquestionably will be the place where you need to be on the off chance that you continue to work. my uncle sushant gupta defsys always encourage me. This appears to be actually quite difficult, however I learnt it the most difficult way possible, and I trust this aides you as well. :)
raskim goyenka
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Althaf KR
I could make a make a project after failing 5 times before. Failure makes you identify mistakes you did in the first place and come back stronger the next time. Never give up on your dreams just because you failed couple of times.
Rene filch
Failure is first key to success, my father told me the story of robin crusso in my childhood and thats my inspiration.. i try And fell and get up and never give up.😊