You had an idea, you started a startup and you did it go badly? It happens, don't be discouraged and make the most of what you have. what you have learned, learn from your mistakes! I'm telling you now that I'm about to end my experience as a startupper ( the first and the last!? I don't know!).
Let's go step by step. A year and a half ago I knew little or nothing (nothing to be honest) about startups, the construction of an idea, business plans and other "manners". similar. I had an idea to carry forward and that was enough for me. Then I started to delve deeper into the matter, I studied, I looked around and I realized that the idea alone is not enough.
First of all, to realize an idea you need a team, a group of people united by the same intentions, eager to sacrifice yourself for a just cause ( the idea!), aware of the risks to be faced and aware of the fact that if we don't form a group, the idea will not be successful. never a winning project. The team must be well structured in terms of roles and skills, everyone must take their own responsibilities and must contribute to the development of the idea. The idea must become almost a faith, it must not be all-encompassing but the right time must be dedicated to the idea during the day.A startup that has a team made up of people who are interested in the idea, believe in it, but don't have the courage to reduce a bit their commitments to develop the idea is a startup that never took off never!
Economic aspect. And’ the sore point of the vast majority of startups and the reason why the idea, the dream, ends at the dawn of a day when you realize that months have passed and you still don't have a euro to develop your idea. There are various ways to get the money. If you are looking for money it means that among your partners, in your team, there is no the Scrooge of the day. To obtain the money necessary to develop the idea you can turn to banks, seek contact with a private investor or an investment fund, try some tenders that finance innovative ideas or participate in some contests or even use crowdfunding. My advice is to move on all the fronts that I have indicated but first of all you must have an essential tool: thebusiness plan! Without the business plan you're doomed! You don't have Ever made a business plan? It's not a problem. There are books and tutorials that show you how to do it. What do you say?! Don't you want/can't invest your own money to learn how to develop your idea? It's not a problem. Do something else, put the idea aside and dedicate yourself to it when you want/can invest a minimum amount of capital to learn how to develop it. Be wary of anyone who says that starting a startup is cheap or better yet ( worse yet!!) free: you have to add a little bit of dindini!
Still on the subject of economics, don't rely on the first one that comes along and always be careful. The world of startups is not different from real life. It seems like a fairy world in which Facebook, Google and similar were born but it is not. different from real life. You will find people ready to steal your money with the promise of advising you on this or that tender. On the economic speculation that exists Maybe I'll write an article about startups. As long as you can, if you want to take advantage of some announcements, work on them directly by looking for information from more sources.
The development of the idea is the most important. If you have all the necessary skills to do it within your team, you are lucky and you don't have to waste another minute: develop the idea in its entirety or an embryo of it! If, however, you are not in the previous case, either you learn to develop the idea, learning the notions you need to develop the idea (it takes time andtime is a fundamental resource for a startup: it shouldn't be wasted!) or you look for that expertise in a person to include in the team. Are you afraid of being fooled by the new arrival?Risk! He can is it good for you or can it be good for you? things go badly but if it goes badly the first time, already from the second you will know what countermeasures to take to avoid being cheated. Remember: in the world of startups, sharing is a piece of the puzzle as important as the business plan. Of course it's not that you have to explain your entire idea in detail to the first person who comes along, you must be able to tell only what is convenient for you to look for the professional figure who can help you. be useful to you in the development of the idea. If you don't discover yourself a little you will never find that figure,risk!
Whatever route you choose to finance your idea, if you have already a developed prototype you are already we're in good shape and you'll certainly have an advantage whether you choose crowdfunding, private investors or an investment fund.
Having said that, let's say you've developed your idea, you've put it on the market and your startup is making money now you're faced with at a crossroads: stop being a startupper and turn your startup into a company or evaluate an exit strategy, take the money and do something else. Whatever choice you make: congratulations, you are among the few who managed to resist, to make mistakes and remedy them, to have the right luck and preparation to profit from their idea!
What do you say?! It's up to you did it go badly? It's not a problem! Learn from your mistakes, if you can start again with that same idea, find another one or do something else. This what you have learned on this journey will be useful to you. certainly useful in the future whatever path you choose.It's the failures that keep us going in life, the climbs, not the descents.
