Daily Muse co-founder and startup advisor Kathryn Minshew has started (and re-started) her share of startups and has the battle scars to prove it. In this 99U talk, Minshew shares the remedies to commonly made startup founder mistakes. Chief among them? The “Gollum Syndrome” where founders treat their companies as “their precious.” Just launch and iterate, says Minshew, because “An ugly baby is better than no baby at all.”

Kathryn Minshew: 7 Classic Startup Founder Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) was originally published on The Curious Brain