Common Mistakes3
The predictable ways founders hurt themselves, laid out so you can see them coming before they cost you.
- building in a vacuumMonths of heads-down building toward a launch nobody asked for. The most common, most expensive mistake there is.
- premature scalingPouring fuel on a fire that isn't lit yet — hiring, spending, and expanding before the core actually works.
- hiring to fix a problem you don't understandHanding a problem you can't define to someone you just met, and calling it delegation.