Today's Entrepreneur: Ilan Abehassera

Kristin Karaoglu · March 9, 2012 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/23d4

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

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

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

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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?

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

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Kristin Karaoglu

Woman of many skills: Database System Engineer; SplashX event producer; Author of Startup Teams

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Producteev.com

Startup/Business

Joined Vator on January 24, 2012

The idea that became Producteev was born out of numerous gripe sessions between a group of interface experts and web application coders (that’s us). We all needed a good task management application, but none of us (believe us, we tried!) could find one that really did the job.

We wanted a fully-featured task management application, with a user interface that made sense—something we didn’t have to devote a couple of hours learning how to use. We wanted to be able to get a clear overview of the status of any project, anytime and from any place. We needed to be able to collaborate effortlessly, updating project information in many different ways: web, email, IM, mobile, desktop... and we needed to be able to share information in real time with all our team members, no matter how computer-savvy they are … or aren’t.

We couldn't find that perfect application, so we decided to build it!