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Today's Entrepreneur: Nicolas Nguyen

No. 1 mistake: Spending too much time on building the perfect product

Innovation series by Kristin Karaoglu
August 1, 2012 | Comments
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/28d2

Today's Entrepreneur is Nicolas Nguyen, CEO and founder of Wordever, Inc. According to his VEQ Nicolas is good at marketing management, product management and thecnology design.

Wordever is competing in the Vator Splash SF competition.

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:
Wordever, Rediron

Startups I worked for:
ThisNext, Terra Matrix Media, Leadpoint

If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I want to change the world.

My favorite startups:
Twitter, Facebook

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
The most frustrating part of entrepreneurship is when you thought you knew everything and the features you added were not used by your members. The most rewarding part is when you talk to your members, tweak the features and see many people use it. The other part is seeing your site double in traffic every month.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Entrepreneurs tends to spend too much time building the perfect product. By the time it was launched, it turned out that the product was too complicated. I learned a long time ago to launch your beta product and build as you go. Learn from your users and add features accordingly.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
1. Build as you go.
2. Talk to your users.
3. Build the basic features and double down the effort as you see traction.

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Wordever.com
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Description: Wordever is a topic based social network. Wordever provides a search and discovery engine bases user klout and engagement. Users create t...
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Nicolas Nguyen
CEO and founder,
Wordever, Inc
Bio: I specialize in web business strategy, revenue and traffic. My latest win was a record revenue quarter for ThisNext in winter of 2011. My...

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