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What Personal Mistakes Does Pat Walls Blame for Delite's Shutdown?

at 24:58

From the episode: Turning a Side Hustle into a $9k/mo Business, with Pat Walls from Starter Story

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Besides the market problems, Pat Walls names two mistakes at Delite that he thinks were avoidable. The first was a first-startup belief that building something appealing would make customers appear. There was no plan to go get them. The second was co-founder alignment. Everyone still had a full-time job. Building was fun at the start, and when the day job got heavy, Delite lost. If one founder kept working and another vanished, the resentment was enough to pull Delite apart. He separates the personal failures from the market reasons, and he says the personal ones could have been prevented.

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