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@benersing
Serial founders… What’s the biggest misconception you had the first time around about building a business? And what do you think future you would say your current biggest misconception is?
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@gregor
That it would work, and funding a business on credit cards was a totally ok idea.
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@benersing
Yikes. Sorry to hear that. Did someone suggest that route?
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Na, my dumbass. Not huge debt, like 10k. GitHub and Airbnb were funded by binders full of credit cards. So I thought I was being conservative. 2nd lesson, focus on team over product, especially on first startups. Find people ur happy spending 16hour days with
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