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> 2. You need to start selling before you have a product, it should influence your product, or help you avoid building something useless. This is the best advi
by erjjones 10y ago
> 2. You need to start selling before you have a product, it should influence your product, or help you avoid building something useless.
This is the best advice and to push it further I would say you need to have a customer ready to go and willing to work with you.
6. YOLO so go for it. You don't want to be 80 years old looking back and thinking I wish I would have.
- GFischer 10y agoSecond that advice. In my specific case, I had a customer very interested in using my product for a very interesting use case I hadn't thought of, and it only took one pitch (and it was basically cold calling, although we did use connections to open that door). However, because I failed to deliver on time, I've lost the opportunity to strike while the fire was hot and key stakeholders went on vacation (I do expect to rekindle interest once we're ready, but I totally blew my personal deadlines).