Your startup will die (I reckon 1 in 10 do in the first year itself), if you... - don't build something you want first (dogfooding, has some exceptions) - don

Your startup will die (I reckon 1 in 10 do in the first year itself), if you... - don't build something you want first (dogfooding, has some exceptions) - don't 'release early, release often' - don't iterate on feedback (talk to the users, everyday) - focus too much on perfection and scalability from day 1 (pre-mature optimization) - don't focus on sales from day 1 (charge users, free is not a business model) - don't start marketing early on (mainly content marketing, SEO, social networking etc.) - don't delegate (outsource or hire) your workload when things pick-up - don't stay frugal and don't reinvest - don't have (or lose out) the vision and passion to organically grow the business into something big (in terms of reach, not necessarily size) - your main purpose is getting rich (early exit, acquisition etc.), in which case get a job [back to my trench]