Entrepreneurs will know that most startups are not successful most of the time. Our hiring isn’t quite right, our funds are often running out, we don’t know if we have achieved a good product-market fit, or if the pricing we decided is optimal! On an average day, an entrepreneur has his/her hands full with more than one such challenge. In a sense a startup’s job is to deal with failure… and systematically eliminate it so we can scale up a roughly error-free business model.
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