Founders Lessons Learned - Part 1: Idea

1. Uncertainty at the beginning is quite common; just try your best to make your vision clearer by time.
2. Necessity is the mother of the invention: If you needed something & searched quite sometime to find it, and ended to build it up, why don’t you think someone somewhere is looking for the same thing.
3. Idea; always search for added value of your solution (Why someone will buy / invest in your idea):
1. Unique: Idea that is not implemented before.
2. Idea that solves known issue in unusual way.
3. Optimize something.
4. When you feel sleepless; don’t waste this time trying to sleep, instead spend this time in ideas that you'd normally just throw out in creative thinking.
5. You should feel that this idea is very important to you.
6. You not only need to think how to attract customers, but how to keep them as well (Own your customer).
7. Secrecy: You will need to share your ideas with some people, think more about this before you do it, take care that someone may steal your idea. At early startup, you only have the idea; nothing more, what will you do if you lose it?
8. Failure several times is the common, no-one succeed without suffering multiple failures, just write down what you have learned from your failures.
9. Adaptation:
1. Modifying the idea / target or part of it might happen, just make sure to revisit your plans to comply with the modification.
2. Switching from technology to another might happen, just learn to do the right thing with the right tools.
10. Having multiple skills is a MUST: It is not always you do what you like to do, but you should do what must be done.
11. Think of partnership, it will save you time, & money with lower risk.