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Today's Entrepreneur: Ilan Abehassera

No. 1 mistake: Start by building a complicated product, then simplify it over time

Innovation series by Kristin Karaoglu
March 9, 2012 | Comments
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/23d4

Today's Entrepreneur is Ilan Abehassera, CEO of Producteev.

According to his VEQ, Ilan is  good at networking, marketing management and negotiation.

Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our profiles allow members to express themselves by sharing their interests, lessons learned, as well as bits and pieces of their roller-coaster journey.

These profiles give entrepreneurs an opportunity to showcase themselves and tell their story. So if you are an entrepreneur, a serial entrepreneur, or even an aspiring entrepreneur, we'd like to hear from you.

I am a(n):
Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Producteev.com

Startups I worked for:
ClickOVA, Zlio.com

If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I want to invent something cool.

My favorite startups:
thefancy, twitter, seamless.com, spotify

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
Rewarding : Changing the life of your active users
Frustrating : Getting the next millionth user always takes way more time than expected

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Start by building a complicated product, then simplify it over time.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

  1. Raise more than what you think you need
  2. Pick a co-founder, don't start a company by yourself
  3. Set a great board of advisors from day 1.

(Want to be profiled? Just fill out your Vator profile and we'll find you! Or you can email [email protected])


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Description: The idea that became Producteev was born out of numerous gripe sessions between a group of interface experts and web application coders (...
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Ilan Abehassera
CEO,
Producteev
Bio: Ilan is a passionate tech entrepreneur and father of two, when he's not thinking about a new feature for Producteev, he's browsing Dribbb...

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