Founders & startup leaders – most helpful lessons learned in 2021?

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Hey folks! 👋 I’m a co-founder at Accord, and like everyone else doing some reflection on everything we learned & accomplished last year :)

In 2021, we launched on PH and went from 0 paying customers to signing our first 50+, hired our founding team, and a bunch of other fun stuff.

As a first-time founder, I learned a TON... Here are a few lessons that made a big impact (and I’d love to hear yours!):

- You really don't know how people will react to your product until you're actually in the market, no matter how much of an expert you are
- It's so important to set ambitious long-term goals as a map for prioritizing the right things (and you don’t need to know how you’re going to accomplish these goals yet!)
- Plant seeds and invest in relationships early; find other givers and give back to them

Cheers to more learning & growth in 2022! What are some of the biggest things you learned last year?

Ross Rich · Accepted Answer

Wrote out some lessons I learned this year – hopefully this is helpful to other first-time founders & builders out there! https://inaccord.com/blog-posts/8-startup-sales-lessons-from-first-year-launching-accord

Sidhdharth Sivasubramanian · Answer

Yep. Totally. I learnt a lot of lessons, you can checkout my blog here - https://medium.com/@sidhdharth/10-mistakes-i-made-in-2021-that-you-shouldnt-do-as-a-business-owner-9a4070ce49d1

Patricia · Answer

Always pay your freelancers as soon as they send their invoice. No questions asked. They do great work, so why make them struggle?

Ross Rich · Answer

@sidhdharth_sivasubramanian nice thanks for sharing... loved #3, the daily accountability to yourself :)

Founders & startup leaders – most helpful lessons learned in 2021?

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