What is one business advice you'd give your younger self?
Building and launching products, testing them in real markets and building a business are like mini-MBAs. It teaches you a lot of things about human behavior, finance, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, management and more.
We become wiser; and wish someone had given us the right advice at the right time.
I want to know: What business advice would you give your younger self and why?
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That’s the advice I wish I took earlier. I spent years juggling too many ideas, too many projects, trying to brute-force progress solo. It felt productive, but it just diluted momentum.
Now I still run multiple things, but the difference is leverage. Systems, a small team, and the ability to buy back time. My younger self had none of that. He needed constraint, not complexity but thought he could do it all haha.
@jordansvision Absolutely. It's the relationships and communication that matters more than most of the things.
Learn to when to let go. The first 2 things I sold in hindsight could've been sold a lot earlier to let me move onto the next thing, but I kept believing that this time if I just positioned something the right way, that was my ticket.
We can't turn everything to gold, and sometimes it's ok for the goal to not be some longterm profit engine but just an exploration of an idea.
I think it's tricky because we commonly hear to break things and move fast, but sometimes when we see some returns on the work we've done it's hard to know if you still need to move on or if this is the time to stay.
@csurita wow.
"Don't let anyone else define success for you."
This is a recent realisation, having spent way too long chasing $10K/MRR and other goals that, on reflection, I don't actually care about.
Life's short – pick a journey that makes (most) days feel good. Sure nothing is ever always smooth, but a purposeful mission, humble desires, and a good work ethic makes every day feel meaningful... for me.
I don't know about others here, but I'm kind of nihilistic about it. Whatever I work on now might not even exist in 10 years, but I'll be 10 years older. That trade sure as hell better be worth it, and some things I will never trade, such as (too much) time, health, relationships.
When you take back control of how "success" is defined for you, you can play by the rules that suit you, not by the ones everyone else wants you to play by.
@martin_rue That's powerful!
@thebigk 🙌
Don't let the fear of failure stop you from making decisions. Fail fast and learn from your mistakes
Oh well - I'll set the ball rolling.
I'd tell myself - learn to write code. Back in the days, I wasted almost 4 years trying to outsource the product development. I was a solo founder who didn't know how to code. In the process, I wasted a lot of money and of course - time.
It'd have been a wiser idea to learn coding; which I eventually did - and it helped me a lot.
Don't fear failure—embrace it. Every stumble is a lesson, every setback a setup for a stronger comeback.
I’d say: nobody’s coming to save you. There’s no “perfect investor,” no viral launch, no silver bullet. You’re going to have to earn every customer, every conversation, and every win. And that’s okay. Build with that in mind from day one and you should be okay (hopefully🙂).
Fail often, learn from your mistakes, you will never be perfect and don't give up – I've failed many times over the past few years and it's something I'd wish I'd done a long time ago, you learn so much.