Too Long; Didn't Read
As someone who’s had a <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/startup" target="_blank">startup</a> not work out as planned (<em>cough</em> <strong>fail</strong> <em>cough</em>), one thing I’ve noticed is that we first-time founders always say “<em>we wish people had told us this before”</em> when we fail. We’ll write post-mortems full of the same old clichéd startup <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/advice" target="_blank">advice</a> that’s being going around for years. <em>Focus on one thing. Sales are the key. Solve a problem people actually have. Don’t raise money until you need it. </em>We are completely oblivious to the fact that many people probably told us every single one of these things before we started. We just didn’t take it in.