What Did Habit Labs Teach Buster Benson to Avoid at 750 Words?

The lesson Buster Benson carried from Habit Labs to 750 Words is to stay small. He does not want to raise money, hire a cofounder, or scale because a startup is supposed to scale. The mistakes he regrets began when he listened to venture investors. A round of a couple of hundred thousand dollars let strangers in, and then the company was supposed to install a business person as chief executive, hire marketers, and follow a plan that pulled him off the product. He does not call that model always wrong. He says it is no longer for him. 750 Words stays independent so the product does not have to please an investor.