Startups are very counterintuitive
Advise for startups are often counintuitive and not obvious. For example:
- Don't do things that scale at first. Don't try to do too much in the beginning. You should do things that don't scale, meaning in a sort of handmade artisanal way so you can learn a lot from it.
- Do things very manually for your early customers. If you think you know the solution and build lots of stuff for it, you might be wrong because you don't know yet. Once you know what you should be building, then focus on scaling.
- As long as you have a constant growth rate, it means exponential growth.
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