Startup Lessons
When I interned at Second Time Founders, I learned about how important leading a company is, how many mistakes first-time founders make, and how that all impacts both their companies and themselves.
Some lessons I learned were easier, some lessons were harder, and some lessons I still process. There are many more valuable startup life experiences for it on the internet. These are a just a few that I wear on my sleeve and take with me.
- • Every meeting should have next steps.
- • UX Design mean much more than people believe it does.
- • Work on maximizing your ability to explain ideas within 30 seconds.
- • Founders should be very generous in equity compensation to early employees.
- • Especially in early stages, minimize time before new learnings. Feedback is super important.
- • Employees for the company are painters for the original vision. When the original vision changes, employees need to paint over the canvas. Founders having a clear vision and communicating that vision time and time again is everything.