Founder Unsure How to Proceed After Validating Product in Crowded Market
A founder in an unnamed, heavily-funded and highly competitive industry describes spending two years learning the space and validating a product with time-strapped users, but is now out of resources and unsure what to do next. The post withholds concrete detail about the industry, product, or specific blocker, limiting how actionable or generalizable the underlying problem is.
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