Depends on your partner - 3 cases: - Some are former operators / joined successful firms at very early stage and lived the growth and startup problems. Startup

Depends on your partner - 3 cases: - Some are former operators / joined successful firms at very early stage and lived the growth and startup problems. Startups all have the same problems at different stages - Some are former founders and lived the same problems - Senior partners had seen patterns repeating in the same industry/vertical/geo as you and worked/were on board with the founder iterating to find what was working or not on the same problem that you have. Worth listening and filtering taking advice from successful partners/former entrepreneur/early operators can gain you months of learning.