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10 startup mistakes which you shouldn't make

Starting a business is however difficult and launching a startup is however considered to be even more challenging. Aside from facing the challenge of attempting in order  to build a company from the ground up, many of the  entrepreneurs generally  have a little prior experience in the business world. Even when they end up having  an incredibly awesome idea, the  complex problems arise, such as managing the young enterprise, handling the  finances and also  hiring employees on a budget.
Due to the  lack of experience, many of the  startups however  endure the misfortune of failure -- if they launch at all. One must always be sure to not add to their tales of disaster.
The purpose of this article is to make the reader aware of the 10 startup mistakes which a startup founder should not make .
The following are the mistakes :-

  1. Single founder
In order to start with, it's considered as  a vote of no confidence. It also  probably means the founder couldn't however  talk to any of his friends into starting the company with him. That's however pretty alarming, because his friends are however  the ones who know him the  best.

2. Marginal Niche

Most of the groups that however  apply to Y Combinator generally  suffer from a common problem which is choosing a small, obscure niche in the hope of avoiding the competition.

Choosing a marginal project is however considered  the startup being equivalent of an eight year old strategy for the purpose of  dealing with fly balls. If one makes anything good, one will be  going to have competitors, so one may however  as well face that. One can however  only avoid competition by avoiding he  good ideas.

3. Obstinacy

In some of the  fields the way in order  to succeed is generally  to have a vision of what one however  wants  to achieve, and also in order  to hold true to it no matter what setbacks one’s encounter. Starting startups is however  not one of them.

Thus , one must not get too attached to his original plan, because it's however  probably wrong. Most of the  successful startups however end up doing something which is generally different than they originally had intended—often which is generally so different that it also  doesn't even seem like the same company. One will  have to be prepared in order  to see the better idea when it however arrives. And the hardest part of that is thus often discarding the  old idea.

4. Choosing the Wrong Platform

A related problem (since it however  tends to be done by a  bad programmer) is thus  choosing the wrong platform.
Platform is considered as a vague word. It could also  mean an operating system, or either a programming language, or either  a "framework" which is generally  built on the  top of a programming language. It also implies something that both generally supports and limits, like the foundation of a house.

The scary thing about the  platforms is generally  that there are however  always some that seem to outsiders in order  to be fine, responsible choices and also yet, like Windows in the 90s, will however destroy them  if they choose them.

5. Slowness in Launching

Companies of all the sizes generally  have a hard time getting the  software done. It's also  intrinsic to the medium; software is however  always 85% done. It always  takes an effort of the will in order  to push through this and also get something released to the users.

Startups generally  make all the  kinds of excuses for the purpose of delaying their launch. Most are however equivalent to the ones people use for the purpose of  procrastinating in everyday life. There's also something that also  needs in order to happen first.
One reason in order  to launch quickly is that it generally  forces one in order  to actually finish some quantum of work. Nothing is also  truly finished till it's however  released; one can also  see that from the rush of work that's however always involved in releasing anything, no matter how finished one thought it was. The other reason which one needs in order  to launch is that it's only by bouncing the  idea off users that one will however  fully understand it.

6. Launching Too Early

Launching too slowly however has however  probably killed a hundred times more than the startups than however launching too fast, but it is also  possible in order to launch too fast. The danger here is that one has to ruin the reputation. One must  launch something, the early adopters try it out, and if it's also no good they may however never come back.

The minimum requirements which one needs in order  to launch are : (a) something which is useful on its own and (b) something that can however be incrementally expanded into the whole project, and then however  get that done as soon as it is  possible.

7. Raising Too Little Money

Most of the successful startups generally take funding at some point of time .
Startup funding is however  measured in time. Every startup that thus  isn't profitable has a certain amount of time which is generally  left before the money runs out and they also  have to stop. This is thus sometimes referred to as a runway. It's also  a good metaphor because it however reminds one  that when the money runs out one is going to be airborne or either  dead.

8. Poor Investor Management

As a founder, one will be required to manage the  investors. One  shouldn't however  ignore them, because they may thus have useful insights. But neither should one however let them run the company. That is generally  supposed to be the entrepreneur’s  job. If the  investors had sufficient vision in order  to run the companies they fund, then they wouldnt start them .

9. Not Wanting to Get Your Hands Dirty

Nearly all the programmers would however  rather spend their time writing a  code and also have someone else handle the messy business for the purpose of extracting the  money from it. And also not just the lazy ones.

10. A Half-Hearted Effort

The failed startups generally  hear most about are the spectactular flameouts. Those are however  actually the elite of failures. The most common type is thus  not the one that generally makes spectacular mistakes, but the one that doesn't do much of anything—the one we however  never even hear about, because it was thus some project which  a couple guys generally  started on the side while they are  working on their day jobs, but which however  never got anywhere and was also gradually abandoned.


However , the founders of LegalRaasta a startup which provides legal services have over powered these hurdles and have ended up in providing more than 100 + services. One doesn’t even have to go out , as it provides online services .
Choosing LegalRaasta is beneficial as:
1. It has , 30+ offices in India
2. It has 10+ years experience
3. It helps to save your time
4. There is a cash back guarantee
Some of the services which it provides are :
3. Registrations - DSC, Trademark, Patent , Copyright
And also many more services .


This article has been contributed by Simmi Setia, Content Writer at LegalRaasta, an online portal for GST SoftwareGST Return FilingGST Registration, Section 8 Company RegistrationNidhi Company RegistrationIEC RegistrationFssai LicenseFile ITR Online.

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