The most common mistake startups make

Alan Jones
3 min readApr 16, 2019

The most common mistake I see in new tech startups is when a team believes that success is mainly about building a great technology product.

Success actually lies in creating a great company, which requires much more than just a great product. It takes a world-class team, addressing a highly-valuable problem experienced by customers who are ready to pay to have that problem solved in a better way.

That team needs to find a way to build that product by learning from the customer, develop marketing, sales and distribution channels… it’s…

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Alan Jones

I’m a coach for founders, partner at M8 Ventures, angel investor. Earlier: founder, early Yahoo product manager, tech reporter. Latest: disrupt.radio