If you had to start over, what would you do differently?

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If you had to start your entrepreneurial journey over again from zero, meaning no audience, no team, and very little budget.

What would you do to get off the ground again? Would you do anything differently?

Scott Sanders · Accepted Answer

Simply put, before growing, I'd concentrate on developing an MVP. Spend more time confirming the product-market fit and less time thinking about obtaining money.

Bunyamin Duduk · Answer

Have an email list and market it before launching. Let people know about our future products.

Padmakar Roy · Answer

@bduduk Marketing can get you visibility and probably, user acquisition but it can't get you user engagement. You can get engagement only by building in public with your 1st set of users who should be in your first degree network.

When you launch your product, first give it to the 1st set of users in your network to use it. Based on their reactions and response to your product, iterate it to make it better. Regularly, track their engagement and work on your product to increase the engagement.

Marketing comes after you have made an engaging product for your 1st set of users.

Padmakar Roy · Answer

@bduduk Yes, you can!

But the priority at this stage should be building an engaging product.

Bunyamin Duduk · Answer

@paddyroybt You are correct, however, while you let people test out your product, you can let other people outside the first set of users know what you are building to establish a group of new users that may join after launch.

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If I had to start over, I would focus more on fostering strong relationships and networking right from the start, as I've learned that personal connections are invaluable in navigating the complex dynamics of both professional and personal growth.

Dennis Zax · Answer

Focus more on business instead of completely dedicating my time to perfection of the implementation. The perfection will never be achieved, and the product will most likely need to pivot so no real progress is made

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Austin Nguyen | Afforai · Answer

I would focus a lot more, if not exclusively on building a product that solves a problem for the users, rather than a product that is technically interesting.

Cyril Gupta · Answer

I'd spend more time on organic traffic. I sold most of the time using affiliates in the last 10 years and that meant I didn't have a sales-stream that worked on auto. I have been changing that since the last 2 years and slowly building up my organic pipeline.

If you had to start over, what would you do differently?

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