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Oleg from FirstHR
What's the best lesson you've learned as a founder?
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Share what you've learned from being a founder.
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Kisson Lin
Manage your energy, and then manage your time. Because as a founder you have to maximize your decision making ability, so do not let over-tiredness drive you to make wrong decisions.
Ash G
Network as much as possible, talk to customers early, get feedback from them and then build.
Launching soon!
Consistency beats intensity.
Oleg from FirstHR
@hamza_afzal_butt I agree, discipline always beats motivation.
Kisson Lin
@hamza_afzal_butt That's a great lesson
Nick from FirstHR
An idea is worth zero, but its execution is everything.
Elena Tsemirava
@nickanisimov Not only the execution of the idea, but also marketing, even more so.
Elena Tsemirava
Prepare for a long and difficult journey. Don't be afraid of failures.
Oleg from FirstHR
@elenat Agree, it's not that simple.
Ava Martin
Build relationships before you need them. Wish I'd known this earlier.
Oleg from FirstHR
@avaamart1n Connections are the new oil.
Yatheen Brahma
Launching soon!
The best lesson I’ve learned as a founder is to embrace failures as part of the journey. Early on, I realized not every idea or strategy works, but each setback taught me something valuable and pushed me closer to success. It's all about learning, adapting, and moving forward.
Oleg from FirstHR
@yatheen_brahma Definitely, the path of a successful entrepreneur is built on failures.
Nidhish Bhavsar
Build Audience
Oleg from FirstHR
@nidhish_bhavsar From the very beginning.
Olivia Jane Mitchell
Biggest lesson for me was the power of building an audience before launching. Grow that email list, nurture a community, create buzz and anticipation. When you finally launch you'll have a built-in user base ready to try your product and give feedback. Wish I had done that from day one instead of trying to find users after launching. Changes the game!
Oleg from FirstHR
@oliviajanemitchell I completely agree, I also realized this after the launch.
Azhar Khan
@oliviajanemitchell — agree. It is tricky to do that however ie building interest. If it was easy, most people should be doing it
Egor Slyusarchuk
I will never know enough to have all the answers, even about my own product. It’s essential to learn to rely on the team, users, and market analysis аnd, of course, to establish an effective system for validating hypotheses.
Oleg from FirstHR
@e_slyusarchuk I agree, without a system you won’t get far.
Bhavya Patel
Things can change from 100 to 0 or 0 to 100 in no time. Just keep trying with all the power you can.