Thread: Everything I wish someone told me before I quit my job

Thread: Everything I wish someone told me before I quit my job to build a startup. 1/ Your savings will run out faster than you think. 18 months becomes 11 months the moment you need a lawyer, a designer, and AWS. 2/ Your friends won't understand. Not because they're bad friends. Because there's no reference frame for what you're doing. Loneliness is the hidden startup cost. 3/ The product is not the hard part. Selling the product is the hard part. Distribution eats product for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 4/ Your first customers are not your real customers. They're your co-founders without equity. Listen to them like it. 5/ "Move fast and break things" was written by someone who could afford to fix what they broke. Most founders can't. 6/ The only metric that matters in year one: are customers paying and coming back? 7/ You will not be ready. Ship anyway. If this was useful, follow me. I write about building real companies without the fake startup glamour. ↩️ RT if one of these hit.