For both technical and non technical founders: what is one mistake that you made early on in the process of creating your business that you wish you could roll back / would not do again in your next venture?
To make sure this post meets the 250 character requirement, ill tell you mine: we wrote too much code too early on. If i could do it again id be waayy more hands on, doing as much manually as possible.
Trusting an egotistical developer to be a cofounder.
Kept blackmailing me every few months for more equity. Didn’t put any money in, and didn’t want to build a team. Then, didn’t work on the product for 6 months.
Luckily, I had a founders agreement in place, and he was within the 1 year cliff.
Spent 8 more months with 2 experienced devs trying to refactor his crappy, antiquated code. Out of 250 files, 249 had his name in them - crazy.
Get a Founder agreement in place!