Founders Lack Reliable Signals to Validate Ideas Before Building
Founders often commit significant time and resources to building products before determining whether the underlying idea is viable, due to a lack of trustworthy early validation signals. This leads to wasted effort on ideas that were unlikely to succeed.
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