Starting smth: fuck it, nothing is truly stopping you, get the aws infinite credits, get the plan with smth behind it.
Vlaio and kbc start it can help in very beginning, same for https://hub.brussels/en/.
Feel the product yourself, be the backend if you have to. Product delight is the actual skill underneath this — logic gets it working, delight gets it kept.
VCs don’t know anything about how to make a product.
Don’t give it away for free, give early bird discount so they’re really into it. “But please tell us what you need we’ll make it for you.” Set expectations for clients and communicate. Have observability setup for the project.
Trust your team and complementary ppl, don’t give it away for free, smbd needs to sell it.
Who you have in the team, who you don’t.
Hell yes or hell no for hiring.
Best ppl have a hunger, they moved around, you need enough time to get to know someone.
Get a bunch of users, only then go to vc.
It’s going to be hard but trust the team.
What do startups need? Besides advice and a place to work what would help them? question
Places: WAT(beta), other ones are with random ppl helping start not ex founders.
Founder first
Second startup talk, real advice:
- most startups never really start, and also nobody is looking for the product
- you need to put something in it and speak with everyone and get a bunch of ppl in it, if you’re the only technical person then everybody will talk to you
Recorded the rest, todo analyze and add it here