the founder whose company already looks like the leader says the price and stops. the one who has...

the founder whose company already looks like the leader says the price and stops. the one who has...the founder whose company already looks like the leader says the price and stops. the one who has...

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Daniel G Bright

max

• 1d

the founder whose company already looks like the leader says the price and stops. the one who has to explain the company first keeps talking until the price comes down

Yaroslav Dykyi

pro

• 2d

You are not your idea. You are not your MVP. You are not the feedback someone left in a Reddit comment at 2am.

The founders who last are the ones who can separate "this specific thing didn't work" from "I don't know what I'm doing."

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Dusko Licanin

pro

• Sep 3

Last quarter four founders walked me through their products. Three shared one problem, and none named it correctly. All three called it runway. CB Insights refreshed its shutdown analysis in March 2026 across 431 venture-backed companies that died since 2023. 70% ran out of capital. Sitting under that: weak product-market fit at 43%, bad timing at 29%, unsustainable unit economics at 19%. The cash-out gets recorded. The reason rarely does. First versions look far better engineered than they did two years ago. The case for building the thing at all is where I see no improvement. Why underpricing gets more expensive to reverse every month: https://www.duskolicanin.com/blog/saas-founder-mistakes-i-see-every-quarter-2026 #SaaS #ProductMarketFit #StartupLessons #SoftwareEngineering