A three-time founder shares ten lessons from a decade working with hundreds of startups. He covers what actually works in early-stage ventures and the mistakes he wishes he'd avoided.
Fast forward 10 years later and I'm now a 3-time founder who has worked with hundreds of startups, and I had the grateful opportunity to work with so many talented founders by supporting their non-diluted fundraising strategies, which has given me a front row seat to see what actually worked, what doesn't, and it gave me a few lessons that became impossible to ignore. And trust me, I've made many of these mistakes myself as a founder too. So if you're building a startup right now, especially as a first-time founder, here are the top 10 things I wish I understood earlier and what I've seen when founders don't.
