Hi everyone, I'm going back to the drawing board on my problem statement and offer over Christmas. Local early-stage software startup founders struggle to ship and sell their products because they over-engineer solutions without dedicating sufficient resources to validating demand, building an audience, and selling. Instead of talking to real customers, testing willingness to pay early, and iterating on the product in a scrappy way, they hide behind insanely complex product work or pursue fundraising as a band-aid. This behavior is driven by fear of embarrassment and discomfort with the business development process. The result could be either wasting months or years spent building products nobody buys, raising capital on bad terms, and running the company in zombie mode for years, or burnout and a return to a corporate career they wanted to escape. All feedback welcome!

Hello Team! Thank you for your work today in the meeting. Some of you have solid problem statements, others need to continue to refine and create their first slide in the pitch deck. We agreed that to make sure we all finish this stage, we will need to start creating our slide deck, slide by slide, until its complete in January 2026, when we host our Pitch Party. Please take a screenshot, and post it here in the comments section. Let's try to get EVERYONE on the same page. Here is mine to kick start the process, I want to see your before next week!