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I don't think money should be a driver to start up a company. Anyway not in my case. The product must be the motivator. Not money. Never seen someone succeeding

• counters 5y ago
  Eh, I'd suggest your case may be an anomaly, at least in the VC/unicorn world. Products are "fluffy." Your idea for a solution or useful tool may or may not take off, for a thousand different reasons. If you're married to it, you may never pivot enough. If you have too much integrity, you may not be willing to bend the story about the problems it solves. But if you just care about the money, none of that is a problem. Product doesn't have traction? Pivot to something else. Product doesn't _really_ solve the problem that the market is telling you would have value? Just fake it or fib until you that next round of funding and then maybe - just maybe - go back and build the actual solution. You just have to live long enough to position yourself for the big gambit, which should give you enough time and money to try to figure things out. Perhaps I'm too cynical, but I've seen first-hand a situation where the product meant nothing - we sold the story.