Everyone Is Wrong About Your Startup
The list of people you should listen to is probably a list of one
If you’ve ever started a business, you know that almost immediately after you decided to make a serious run at your business idea, someone was standing over your shoulder and telling you what you really should do to make it successful.
It doesn’t matter if you started your very first business yesterday or you’ve founded a dozen companies over decades.
Yes, there is an entire industry of folks dedicated to telling you what you really should do to make your startup successful. There are advisors and mentors and incubators and accelerators and investors and on and on and on.
And just so I don’t get accused of clickbait, I’m not here to trash advisors and incubators and investors.
I’m here to trash your friends.
Your acquaintances. Your colleagues. Your uncle who ran that restaurant for ages. Your mom’s friend who did Rodan + Fields for a bit in the aughts.
Oh, and also most of those advisors, incubators, and investors.
Because they’re all wrong about what it’s going to take to make your startup successful.
