🚀 Why Most Entrepreneurs/Solopreneuers Fail (And How to Break Free)
Let’s be real for a minute. Most software founders don’t fail because they lack ideas, talent, or resources. They fail because they stall out. Here’s the pattern I’ve seen over 25 years building projects from $2M to $45M budgets, and in my own indie SaaS launches: ❌ The Stall Cycle 1. Excitement Stage — new idea, high energy, “this could be big.” 2. Build Stage — weeks or months of coding, designing, tweaking. 3. Doubt Stage — feature creep, analysis paralysis, second-guessing, stoppers. 4. Abandon Stage — project gets shelved, momentum dies. Sound familiar? 95% of builders get stuck here. The world never sees their work. ✅ The Breakthrough Cycle The 5% who win do something radically different: they finish. Here is the framework: - Define DONE: Don’t just “work on an MVP.” Decide: “Done means one working feature live by day 30.” - Ship Early: Get something in front of real users before it’s comfortable. - Feedback > Features: Every extra week in your editor is a week without data. - Momentum Compounds: One win (a shipped MVP, a paying beta user) creates fuel for the next sprint. Momentum is a muscle.If you build it, you get addicted to finishing.If you stall, you get addicted to starting over. Which cycle are you in right now? Drop a comment: - Where have you stalled in the past? - What would “finishing” look like for you?