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Got it! I'm currently at the stage of my life where I want to venture out on my own. Few questions that I have are - a) How relevant was your experience (as en

• a13n 6y ago
  > a) How relevant was your experience (as engineers) in building and growing startups? Super relevant to building the product. I feel like to be successful, you have to be really, really good at a couple things. For us that was engineering + design. For another team it might be that they're good enough at sales that they can close big deals right off the bat. Being great at engineering + design meant we could build the best product in our market, with a robust codebase that's free of errors (unit tests, CI/CD) and easy to scale. > b) Looking back, what skills would you have liked to acquire before starting up? Hmm. It might have been good to work at an early-stage SaaS startup before starting one. This would have given us a lot of context into pricing, sales, marketing, recruiting, etc. Problems that we kind of just had to figure out from scratch. > c) How much of startups is marketing and networking compared to product and growth? Most of our success can be attributed to a) building a great product, and b) getting it in front of people. B is all marketing. Ads, SEO, content, etc. Now, some startups rely entirely on product + sales, and some startups are able to attract all of their customers with just product (esp consumer). It really depends on your product/market/company, and how your customers want to buy.