No Reliable Framework to Distinguish Founder Persistence From Sunk-Cost Stubbornness
Entrepreneurs lack systematic methods to determine whether slow progress warrants continued effort or signals a dead end. Without objective signals, founders rely on gut feel, which is biased toward the sunk-cost fallacy. The ambiguity is especially acute when multiple variables (execution, market fit, timing) are simultaneously uncertain.
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