Recently when GoSquared turned 16 years old (or young?) we shared a blog post with 16 lessons from those 16 years. We received a ton of great feedback on the post, so I thought it’d be good to share some of those lessons on the show and speak about them a little more.

Here are the first 8 of the 16 lessons we’ve learned along the way so far...

On ideas and building:

1. Build something people want.


2. Share early, share often.


3. Constraints breed creativity — embrace them


4. The details are not the details, they make the product

On customers:

1. Use your own product. Be your own customer


2. Charge the trust battery


3. Your customers are smart — treat them accordingly


4. Treat each customer as unique, but scale your process

Links and further reading

• Timeline of GoSquared over 16 years


• The complete blog post of our 16 lessons from 16 years


• Ideas are fragile


• Trust battery

Thanks, and see you next time!

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