When I started on the entrepreneurial journey over two years ago, I had this naive notion that I could do everything on my own and that I needed to keep my ideas a secret.
Three websites and a startup incubator program later, I learned some lessons I wish I knew at the beginning as an entrepreneur.
9 Lessons I Learned About Starting a Startup
Lesson #1: An idea is worth nothing.
A company consists of many moving parts at any point in time — an idea is simply a starting point. Given an idea, it snowballs into many different ones and you can go in a 100 different direction. The outcome depends on many variables, akin to what makes predicting the weather an inexact science. Imagine you have an idea for a building — the HOW, WHERE, and the CONTEXT are much more important than the WHAT. It’s very easy to have ideas — you can have a 100 ideas a week.
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Author: Stella Huh
