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The Advice Worked for Them. That Doesn't Mean It Will Work for You.
4/30/2026
Here's a question worth sitting with: if 90% of startups fail, why does almost all startup advice come from the 10% that succeeded? The answer is obvious once you say it out loud. But the implications are stranger than they first appear — and they go well beyond "watch out for su…
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