🎉 Good News: You’ve just founded a startup with a unique take on the market. Sales are humming and you raised a seed from a top firm!
☠️ Bad News: You’ve got three direct competitors that each raised 3X as much and are getting better PR.
What do you do?
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📈 Focus on unit economics and product/market fit, not scale
📓 Find a new way to tell your story
In time (and with a little luck) you may swap silver for gold.
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