What's the biggest mistake you've made as a founder?

@gogloballakshmi What happened with your mentor - mentee part?

@richardfliu we just didn't see eye to eye in terms of execution.. My strategy was different from theirs and the communication style was a mismatch when discussing disagreements. Of course I understand this on postmortem.. I did not have this clarity when I was caught up in action.

@gogloballakshmi Was this an advisor presented to you by your investors?

@prateek_mathur mentors and advisors are not the same... I was bootstrapped, never took investor money... startups are about communities too..

@gogloballakshmi Ah that sucks :/

@adrian_topka Haha 100% - it seems like market/idea validation is a common theme

@artem_smirnov A mentor is to facilitate, IMO nothing should be force especially for a founder.. What I see is you wanted someone to communicate with, so a matching communication style will help with achieving goals..

@artem_smirnov I've done that, am doing that. I'm having to rethink because I'm self-funding and this is expensive expensive. But she helped me re-pivot and if she holds me accountable (which is a big deal) - which she has - then I need to maybe just eat it and live with it. I was literally re-thinking the investment this morning. It's painful because "intangibles" like "clarifies", "calms", "synthesizes" is not lines of code or bugs killed, newsletters written, or instagram posts.

@al3sha Haha that's an era I missed out on 😆

@al3sha I did that, the customers kept asking "Are you going to go out of business?" and we were saying "No, we just launched!" ....and it was a SaaS about 10 years early but its still running today, 20 years later LOL.

@al3sha @dean_ayer Damn that's amazing haha

@prakis Oh really wow I would have thought myself that a template feature would be what users wanted

@seeenjake Could I ask what you did specifically here?

@jack_davis7 Haha did anything bad happen or did you get away with it 😆

@ifinnaoui Some good points! I think finding the fine line between releasing early and taking too long comes with experience haha

@emmanguyen Yeah I acutally ran into this problem with one of my friends. Realised we're really great as friends but terrible as a co-founder partner (she's more of a corporat person).

@richardfliu Startup game is starting from scratch. Not simply copy & paste solution from one place and put it to another market. The corp/ big org is well-designed process - Doing well in those does not mean you will thrive in startup.

@influxes I know how you feel. Been there, its quite a pain and I have lost quite a lot because of that alone.

@influxes i feel that means you weren't really excited about them. perhaps led you to something better: you have passion + good idea.

@angelina_magr I was excited for them to be a reality. But I was not excited about the pains of building them. So I procrastinated.

@influxes not excited enough then? :P

@influxes i think that's the best! save your energy to something even better. You can "meh." the rest of them.

@daniel_kyne That's a great tip on copying incumbents and then picking out what to innovate selectively

@chris_jansen1 Haha I had dogecoin at 1 cent and then I sold it at 10 cents 😅

@chris_jansen1 @richardfliu Oh what you gonna say for the people who bought it at 60 cents and waiting now