Founders evaluate startup ideas in isolation, making bias-driven conviction inevitable
Solo founders assess ideas one at a time, which makes emotional attachment and survivorship bias structurally unavoidable. Without a comparative framework or systematic invalidation process, weak ideas consume weeks of planning before being abandoned. The failure mode is not lack of ideas but lack of a discipline for honest, cross-idea signal filtering.
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