What are the most common mistakes you see founders make?

Building getinboxzero.com and sharemint.xyz.

I also run a YouTube channel, "Learn from Open Source": youtube.com/elie2222 

Healthcare investor by day, web3/AI tinkerer by night. 🟪 Host: /venturecapital /theitinerant

Would you say this is specific to companies looking for vc funding?

Many nice businesses earning a million dollars per year for relatively small problems but great income for the founder as they own the entire company

Not picking a large enough problem to solve.

I’m a builder looking for the next challenge. 

You had to insult all web3 builders like that? 😭

Focusing more on building "something" instead of solving a real problem.

Unreal Engine + EVMs + Account Abstraction Building /evmwarfare

Robust Product and Not enough marketing or too much marketing and no product.

I take it this is two?

That if you have a cofounder you should allow them to do their thing or not?

Not having a co-founder and allowing them to do their thing while you do your.

Would love to chat with you about this. I don’t think we do brand strategy too well ourselves. I’m Elie@sharemint.xyz if you’re open to chat.

Not doing a little research on brand strategy. Huge problem in tech, even worse in crypto

Not being maniacally focused on the customer and providing (and capturing) value to/from them

Relying on Steroids when u should probably exercise more (raising money vs improving sales/margins) ?

Not doing proper research, validation and iterating with the problem.

Not having engineers doing continuous customer discovery and when they do making sure that they don’t just get defensive about their product.

Undermining the importance of positioning before launching

have really strong opinions (a good founder trait) in things that don't matter and/or are outside of the project scope.

Not knowing when it’s time or how to let someone go, especially if it’s someone who’s been with the company from the beginning, or move them into a more effective role