Janine Sickmeyer founded and built legal startup NextChapter, which she bootstrapped for over 6 long years. As a first-time founder, Janine steadily grew to 20 employees, and was instrumental in achieving 6K customers as well as 14% MoM consistent growth for 3 long years. Eventually her startup was acquired in September 2019 by Fastcase!

This podcast is taken from her thread on Twitter, where she shared her experience on, why being a first-time founder is so hard!

According to her, for the first-time founder it takes 2X time and roughly 3X money to succeed.