Founder Rewind

<p>I recently caught up with a friend who&rsquo;d founded a company. He was at a low point: overwhelmed, sleep deprived, stressed&hellip; I listened, nodded, and said, &ldquo;I remember those days.&rdquo;</p> <p>And I do remember them. It took years before my startup&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Anchor</a>&nbsp;began to gain real traction. There were sleepless nights and drastic pivots, crashed servers and bad bugs. Most founders I speak to agree that the startup journey is generally discouraging, overrun with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zaxis.page/p/push-pull-building-products" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">unsolvable challenges</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.zaxis.page/p/rough-drafts" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">many many mistakes</a>.</p> <p>&ldquo;But there&rsquo;s good stuff too, right?&rdquo; my friend asked.</p> <p>I assured him there was. I said that the high points, while few and far between, would be worth it. I added that the low points, while no fun in the moment, are all things that make you smarter down the road. I explained that most of his energy and concern was probably expended on&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/@NirZicherman/the-low-pass-ceo-dca6c59a25fe" rel="noopener">things that wouldn&rsquo;t matter</a>&nbsp;in the long run. I told him that when I was on the journey, I too had these periods of doubt.</p> <p>He asked, &ldquo;What would you have done differently?&rdquo;</p> <p>And rather than giving him just my answer &mdash; which might have been unique to my experience, not applicable to his &mdash; I decided to do something different and write this article. I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. The question I asked them was this:&nbsp;<em>If you could go back in time and give your younger self some advice just as you were starting your founder journey, what would you say?</em></p> <p><a href="https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/founder-rewind-d9dcebcf6ea4"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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