{"id":40048,"date":"2023-10-20T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/the-worst-advice-i-ever-received-vinomofos-co-founder-and-other-startup-leaders-come-clean-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:06:00","slug":"the-worst-advice-i-ever-received-vinomofos-co-founder-and-other-startup-leaders-come-clean-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-worst-advice-i-ever-received-vinomofos-co-founder-and-other-startup-leaders-come-clean-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst advice I ever received: Vinomofo’s co-founder and other startup leaders come clean – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThere are no jobs in entrepreneurship\u201d.<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re on the receiving end or have ashamedly handed out some yourself, bad advice is part and parcel of the entrepreneurial journey. But it isn’t always as obvious as the statement above.<\/p>\n
While it’s important to listen and take on guidance from trusted advisors,\u00a0speaking with \u201cexperts\u201d <\/a>can\u00a0be a double-edged sword as entrepreneur Ramon Martinez-Mendozah points out.<\/p>\n \u201cYou feel obligated to listen to them anyway because you never can be sure when the right piece of advice is coming from the right contact,\u201d he told StartupSmart<\/em>.<\/p>\n So what does bad advice look like for startups?<\/p>\n We asked Vinomofo, a startup backed on Shark Tank,<\/em>\u00a0and a tech leader who has been in the startup game since the dot com era.<\/p>\nHire the most experienced and qualified<\/h3>\n