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Founders Should Worry Less About Their Pitch and More About Their First Ten Customers

The obsession with fundraising narrative often crowds out the harder, more useful work — the unglamorous job of getting ten strangers to pay for something that doesn’t fully work yet. Spend a few hours in any early-stage accelerator and you’ll notice the imbalance immediately: founders can recite their fundraising narrative — market size, wedge, moat

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The obsession with fundraising narrative often crowds out the harder, more useful work.