What was the biggest mistake you made for your startup?

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I'd say that for my own, it was treating it like a service business a few days after launch.

We had a customer that kept on making requests and we kept on giving them, which cost us a lot of time.

How about you?

Laurentiu Bancu · Accepted Answer

When we built Shelfster in 2013, we were so in love with our idea that we completely underestimated the competition. We thought we were more innovative. We were confident that we could build something much better.

The biggest mistake was that what we thought would be better wasn't necessarily beneficial to the users. The lesson we've learned: a feature that your users will appreciate is not always the one you've invested the more resources in or the one you like best. It's the one that solves their problems.

HyunGun Jung · Answer

@richard_gao2 
Yeah, it can easily eat up years.

HyunGun Jung · Answer

Wasted time building before validating..

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Richard Gao · Answer

@laurentiu_bancu2 Really something to keep in mind. In what ways was your product better?

Richard Gao · Answer

@jack_jung Seems to be a big one for most!

Laurentiu Bancu · Answer

@richard_gao2 It had a couple of hard-to-implement features that the competition didn't have and was faster.

What was the biggest mistake you made for your startup?

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