Helen Fiala

Side projects - easy to get started, can generally be built over a weekend, low upfront risks and cost, low impact of a failure, high impact of success, a medium to learn new skills, a way to grow a community, can be achieved by an individual. Startups - harder to get started, generally require large capital, enormous payoff if successful, at times large impact if a failure, generally requires a team. I'm definitely sitting in team Side Project at the moment. For new creators entering the creator economy, I think side projects are the optimal allocation of resources. You can achieve so much with so little! Keen to hear your thoughts. Am I oversimplifying this? What do you prefer? Share your arguments for both sides of the equation below

Having spent most of our careers working/ leading diverse startups and more recently at VenEx (GetVenEx.com) where my co-founder, Avi (Avinash Agrawal) and I are solving for at least one of these problems, don't know, with conviction, which of these are most critical. Would love to have your views.

We built our MVP almost 1 year, but it was a dramatic mistake. How long did you build your MVP? Our MVP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bu...