🤪Dumb mistakes as a first-time Founder #4: ⁠ Feared rejection - a little bit⁠ ⁠ Sometimes because of⁠ ⁠ 🧱 Giving up early⁠ 🧱 Lack of planning⁠ 🧱 Procrastination⁠ ⁠ things would go sideways. ⁠ ⁠ I remember that clearly because I freakin cried a lot. ⁠ ⁠ I feared⁠ ⁠ → All of this effort would be for nothing. ⁠ → My team would give up on me⁠ → I didn't have much technical experience⁠ ⁠ All these fears of rejecting myself, the ideas, and possible pivots impacted us. ⁠ ⁠ Did I fear rejection from investors/accelerators/VCs?⁠ ⁠ Hell, nah!⁠ ⁠ What's more abundant than startups and founders is all those people who want to take advantage of them. ⁠ ⁠ 👇What dumb mistake did you make as a founder?⁠ ⁠ #startup #startupmistakes #founder #money #seedstage #strategy #PooriaMistakes ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠