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The Only Thing That Survives
A company raised $4M, shipped a beautiful product, got written up in TechCrunch, and died in eleven months. Three teams built the same thing within six weeks of launch and one of them was free. Only 3% of VC-backed software companies ever reach $100M in revenue. If a team with $50M cloned you tomorrow, what would they still not be able to replicate in three years? This post presents seven real sources of durability that have nothing to do with your tech stack, from proprietary data that compounds with every interaction to infrastructure trust that takes years to earn to physical atoms that no weekend prototype can shortcut.
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