A startup is a bundle of unresolved assumptions pretending to be a company
signulll · x · 2026-09-10
signulll offers a crisp mental model: a startup is a bundle of unresolved assumptions — product, market, team, timing, distribution, culture, financing — several of which can look settled right up until they aren't. That's why the emotional volatility of founders is rational: the underlying object itself is volatile, and one week's learning can invalidate six months of work.
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