Don’t let other internet services that you don’t pay for or startup myths teach you otherwise: Your goal as a startup is always to be profitable. The sooner you reach this, the more freedom you gain from it.

Over the last decade I helped hundreds of young founders to build their first product or startup. The startup advice I gave them shifted over the years and evolved with the learnings and mistakes I made in my own projects and what I have seen in other startups.

Nearly every product idea that comes up in your head can be built with the incredible possibilities we have today, but the really important question is if this product has some reason for existence.