18-mistake audit

18-mistake audit

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• We are not running on a single founder with no one to catch blind spots
• Our location gives us access to users, talent, or peers — not isolation
• Our niche is real and painful, not marginal
• Our idea comes from a real problem, not a clone of an existing company
• We've changed the idea when evidence said to, at least once
• We haven't locked in bad technical hires or the wrong platform
• We're neither stalling before launch nor shipping before there's anything to learn from
• We can name a specific user, not a generic 'everyone'
• Our fundraising amount is deliberate, not reflexively too little or too much
• We manage investor relationships proactively, not reactively
• We haven't sacrificed user trust for short-term revenue
• Founders are still doing the unscalable, hands-on work themselves
• Founder disagreements get resolved directly, not avoided
• This is a full effort, not a half-hearted hedge