Founder life
Failure, pivots & shutdowns
Change direction, or stop, with grace.
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What do I legally have to do to shut down my private limited company in India?
You cannot just stop showing up. An Indian Pvt Ltd keeps accruing ROC filing obligations, penalties, and director disqualification risk until it is...
When is a pivot really just quitting the current idea with extra steps?
A real pivot keeps something you already have (a customer base, a technology, a distribution channel, a hard-won insight) and points it at a better...
How do I know if I've truly validated the pivot before I bet the company on it?
Do not run the pivot on faith the way you may have run the first idea. Before you redirect the whole team, get a handful of the new target customer...
My co-founder wants to pivot and I don't. How do we break the deadlock?
A founder split on direction is really a split on what you each believe the evidence says, so first agree on the one experiment whose result you wi...
When should I stop bootstrapping and admit the business just isn't working?
Set the kill criteria while you are still clear-headed, not in the fog of month 20. Pick a specific metric and a date: if paying customers, retenti...
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