10 Mistakes That Can Kill Your Startup
(A thread every founder should read!)
1. Chasing too many ideas – Focus is your superpower.
2. No planning or poor planning – Strategy > luck.
3. Ignoring design – Good design = better trust & UX.
4. Not bui
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Hey I am on Medial • 8d
No. 6 hits bad. Founders want VC money but then run their startup like a 9-to-5. This ain’t corporate life. If you can’t take a bet, why are you even in the game? lol.
A lot of founders think funding = validation, but that’s just step one. If you can’t turn that capital into real, sustainable growth, it’s just a countdown to running out of cash. Just because a startup raises VC money doesn’t mean it’s successful. V
Top 10 accelerators that you can apply at a super early stage 👇
1. Y Combinator | Pre-Seed, $500k for ~10%
2. Entrepreneur First | No team, $250k for ~9%
3. South Park Commons| Pre-Idea, $1M
4. Antler Global | Pre-Seed, $250k for 9%
5. Sequoia
VC Tales:
Rajan Anandan, the celebrated VC, has a penchant for backing game-changers.
-His $3M seed in Ola, India's ride-hailing giant, set the stage.
-The $2M Series A in Freshworks, now a $10B SaaS unicorn, displayed his foresight.
-Rajan's
💥 "Startups Are Failing Because They’re Too Busy Copying Corporates!" 💥
Startups often think they need to operate like big corporations to succeed. Here's the brutal truth: Corporates can crush startups because they’ve mastered the game YOU are tr
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Aastha Anand
Startup | VC | Autom... • 16d
Raising VC Money? Tips No One Tells You :
1) Don’t Chase VCs, Attract Them - Build something so good they can’t ignore you.
2) Traction > Decks - Fancy pitch decks don’t matter if your numbers don’t add up.
3) Investors Follow Other Investors - G
According to Y Combinator, here are 15 common mistakes to steer clear of:
1. Single Founder
2. Bad Location
3. Marginal Niche
4. Derivative Idea
5. Obstinacy
6. Hiring Bad Programmers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launch
We did a pivot to save our company!
We started as an experience gifting platform that was a gifting marketplace for experiences like fine dines, salons, spa, etc
Raised a VC round and initially got traction but soon realised that the high CAC and f
I own one(1) thing, which "Elon Musk" cannot own even with 400Billion+Dollars
That is I am freaking:
Young, I have
Brain-To think
Eyes-To see
Legs-To move
Hands-To work
Heart- To Breathe
Ears-To hear & so on..
Still thinking? What I own... It's
Struggling to grab your audience's attention?
It was 2023, Struggling to bring users on my platform at Syst as a CEO and Co-founder
9 words can transform your marketing game. Here's the secret sauce:
➡️1. You - Make it about them.
➡️2. Free - Wh
🚀 India’s Biggest Bootstrapped Startups! 🇮🇳
No VC money, no external funding—just pure hustle! Here are India’s top bootstrapped giants in 2025 ranked by valuation (in ₹ Cr):
1.Serum Institute of India - ₹2,19,700 Cr
2.Zoho Corp -₹1,04,000 Cr
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