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I want to openly talk about one of my first-time founder mistakes while building my startup.
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When I first started building Ripplink, I wanted to build in public because having the community come along the journey would be amazing. (1/8)
By working to disrupt a hot space, it definitely brought the attention that I'd expected. Outreach from potential investors, PR, and users was awesome. (2/8)
Around this time, my team and I were almost done with our first alpha build but constantly got distracted by multiple follow-up investor calls, people wanting to write stories on our product, etc. (3/8)
The product development began to slow as my attention turned to those investor calls and even at the end of the day, all of them passed (for now) because they wanted to see the product; and well, it wasn't ready. (4/8)
After all the investor calls, articles written, accelerators, etc., I'm grateful for all the relationships that I had built. (5/8)
However, looking back, I should have known that the investor will always be there in the right place and the right time. This is my mindset going forward: (6/8)
Don't get distracted by all the limelight. PR and investors become a distraction and take you away from building your product and talking to customers. Push for traction, quantify value-add, and the rest will follow. (7/8)
Now, me and my team are more laser-focused than ever. By being open, I'm looking forward to moving forward from here and build the future of professional relationship intelligence. (8/8)
(let me know your thoughts if this was a good thread! it was my first one and honestly was kinda scared but would your thoughts!)
