11 Easy Steps to Make Your Startup Success

Introduction 

Progress is the key to any product or startup. Unfortunately, Many businesses and startups don’t understand it completely.

Here are 11 steps that I have learned from the amazing book Rework by DHH and Jason Fried.

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1. Less is good

“I don’t have enough time/money/people/experience” — Stop whining and embrace the constraints. Constraints are advantages in disguise. Limited resources force you to make do with what you’ve got.

There’s no room for waste and that forces you to be creative.

2. Build half a product, not half assed product

You can turn a bunch of great ideas into a crappy product real fast by trying to do them all at once. You just can’t do everything you want to do and do it well.

Lots of things get better as they get shorter.

3. Start

When you start anything new, there are forces pulling you in a variety of directions. There’s the stuff you could do, the stuff you want to do, and the stuff you have to do.

The stuff you have to do is where you should begin. Start at the epicenter.

4. Ignore the details early on

Details make the difference. But getting infatuated with details too early leads to disagreement, meetings, and delays.

You waste time on decisions that are going to change anyway.

Nail the basics first and worry about the specifics later.

5. Decisions are progress

When you put off decisions, they pile up. And piles end up ignored or thrown out. As a result, the individual problems in those piles stay unresolved.

Commit to making decisions.

Whenever you can, swap “Let’s think about it” for “Let’s decide on it”.

6. Be a curator

You don’t make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That’s a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that’s not on the walls.

It’s the stuff you leave out that matters. So always look for things to remove and simplify.

7. Throw less at the problem

When things aren’t working, the natural tendency is to throw more at the problem. More people, time, and money.

The right way to go is the opposite direction: Cut back. Do less.

You’ll be forced to make tough calls and sort out what truly matters.

8. Focus on constant.

A lot of companies focus on the next big thing. They latch on to what’s hot and new.

That’s a fool’s path.

The core of your business should be built around things that won’t change. Things that people are going to want today and ten years from now.

9. Tone is in your fingers

Guitar gurus say “Tone is in your fingers.” You can buy the same guitar, effects pedals, and amplifier that Eddie Van Halen uses. But when you play it, it’s still going to sound like you.

Fancy gear can help, but the truth is your tone comes from you.

Similarly, In business, too many people obsess over tools, software tricks, scaling issues, and other frivolities instead of what really matters.

What matters is how to actually get customers and make money.

Give Tiger Woods a set of cheap clubs and he’ll still destroy you.

10. You can’t make just one thing

When you make something, you always make something else. You can’t make just one thing. Everything has a by-product.

Observant and creative business minds spot these by-products and see opportunities.

11. Get it out there

When is your product or service finished? When should you put it out on the market? When is it safe to let people have it?

Probably a lot sooner than you’re comfortable with. Once your product does what it needs to do, get it out there.

Launch now!

Final Thought

That’s it for today, hope you learned something new! As always, suggestions and feedback are more than welcome.

Thanks for your support!