Moore: FOMO prevents angels from giving honest feedback to successful repeat founders
Bob Moore · How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data) · Sep 19, 2024 · at 10:41
Bob Moore, co-founder and CEO of Crossbeam, explains why pitching a single startup concept to friends and angel investors often leads to false validation.
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“The FOMO of not being in on their next thing is greater than my willingness to create confrontation with them, which is not a hard ratio to keep over one. Then I'm not going to give them as candid feedback as I probably rationally should, or I'm not even going to allow myself into that headspace, right?”
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