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Do I need to be an expert in an industry to start a company in it? You don't need a PhD, but you need a real edge: lived experience, a strong network, or specific knowledge you gained by doing, not reading. Outside... Intermediate 19 resources → My co-founder has the domain expertise and I don't. Do we split founder-market fit, or is only one of us 'the fit'? Founder-market fit lives at the team level, not the individual. A pairing where one person owns deep market knowledge and the other owns building o... Intermediate 18 resources →
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