Harj Taggar - Why Do Startups Fail

Great advice. A red flag for me at tech companies is when founders refer to their users as stupid or idiots.

That point about "Technical founders" is a harsh truth... I can totally relate!

Thank you.

Beautifully concise.

If my best friends don't "Love" my product I don't try to sell it to others.

So concise yet so informative!! I see you look for this ability in the founders you work with right? Thanks for helping me realise this 🙏🏼

Easy to maintain and to scale (beautiful) code allows faster implementation of new ideas. I think it is better to refactor early than to leave the code turn into a big mess. I agree that this will not make for good user solutions by itself and that should be the main goal and focus.

Thank you Mate!

This guy was done once he got separated from riot near the rocket.

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Great clip

Love it, no extra words you just nailed it. Excellent 👌

Some think that talking to users is not that important because they're also a user, but this is a very big mistake since you can build the best product that is overfitted to you and not the entire class of users you belong to.

Talking to users doesn't have to be face-to-face or even a conversation, for example you can parse user reviews on alternative products that you're competing against though this is not always possible.

Love the "you're a doctor, talk to your users to figure out their problems, then you prescribe the meds not them"

Steve Jobs didn't ask design questions to non-designers. He's asked product questions to his users. That's the Big difference

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Steve mantra have created many stupid founders.

good

80 percent is luck 20 percent is knowing you got lucky and setting the sails to catch the luck and succeed.

Users don't care about the greatness of the code that u wrote, but that the product solves a real problem 4 them.

Accurate.

Super solid advice

Love the analogy here