The numbers vary, but getting a working minimum viable product is a tiny fraction of a business, and transmuting that into a going concern is far more work than

The numbers vary, but getting a working minimum viable product is a tiny fraction of a business, and transmuting that into a going concern is far more work than getting it kind of working in the first place. The path is tricky and there's existential danger on both sides: a chasm of endless rewrites on one and a mire of endless technical debt on the other. Both can torpedo a project ever reaching a steady state.