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Common Mistakes 3
The predictable ways founders hurt themselves, laid out so you can see them coming before they cost you.
- Building in a Vacuum Months of heads-down building toward a launch nobody asked for. The most common, most expensive mistake there is. DRAFT
- Premature Scaling Pouring fuel on a fire that isn’t lit yet — hiring, spending, and expanding before the core actually works. DRAFT
- Hiring to Fix a Problem You Don’t Understand Handing a problem you can’t define to someone you just met, and calling it delegation. DRAFT