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The Pivot That Saved a Hardware Startup
In Episode 3 of The Founder's Journey, Lucas and Luna unpack the story of a hardware startup that burned through $2 million in venture funding before realizing their product was solving a problem nobody had. We follow founder Elena Vasquez as she made the gut-wrenching decision to pivot from a smart-home device to an industrial sensor platform — and how that move turned a dying company into a $50 million acquisition target within 18 months. Along the way, we discuss the sunk-cost fallacy that traps so many first-time entrepreneurs, the one customer interview that changed everything, and…
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