### 051624 - pivoting market too frequently - pivoting product too frequently - pivoting team too frequently even before doing startups i was constantly pivoting, just look at my github https://github.com/louis030195?tab=repositories i'm part of 7 orgs, have 141 repositories when i was a kid would constantly start new projects at night / weekend, building bots for games, or building games, or other things the irony is that many of my projects have been stopped just below an [[Activation energy]] - i just had to push a little bit more and would have exploded my new mindset: stick to a market for long enough to find the global maxima, stack enough knowledge, create a nearly complete [[The Map is not the Territory|map of the territory]] in order to start noticing the right problem to solve again, when you enter a new market, a new kind of product, a new relationship/team, you have a map full of holes and your goal is to fill these holes by talking to people, hacking around, having deep and [[Having difficult conversation|difficult conversations]] ### 011424 publicly sharing the biggest mistakes I've made in recent years while working on my own startup: - not being focused enough - being too focused on the solution rather than the problem/user - spending too much time building and not enough time selling - letting myself be guided by my experience as a consumer instead of leveraging my specific knowledge and network in my industry - big vision; wrong starting point - pivoting too quickly - not confident enough to be the CEO - turning down an investment or accelerator because of a big ego - not caring enough about the well-being of my co-founder(s) - not enough deep reflection, introspection and writing. too caught up in the treadmill - not using enough "low code" / "no code" tools - problem space not urgent enough - tunnel vision-ed on low hanging fruit