Why Technical Startups Fail: Building in a Vacuum

There is a specific, lonely moment that every technical founder eventually faces. It is the moment the code is clean, the architecture is scalable, and the beta version is ready to launch. You look at your screen, proud of the elegant solution you've built, and you expect the world to beat a path to your door. Instead, the silence is deafening. You send out a few emails to your network. You post a LinkedIn update about the new feature. You wait. And you wait. This scenario plays out in thousands