Most advice to founders is terrible because it is such a low success area with a million unusual ways to fail that one advice won't work for all. You may priori

Most advice to founders is terrible because it is such a low success area with a million unusual ways to fail that one advice won't work for all. You may prioritize wrong spending efforts on Yak Shaving while your competitor eats your business, or you may be focused on delivering without worrying about quality that when a competitor comes with a quality product, they toss you out. A good example of 2nd is Windows Mobile, when iPhone launched and was being wowed upon a simple act would have been to copy key features/touch UI and capture the market. They had a year or two window before iPhone would be competitive. But CE and MS UI frameworks were dumpster fire compared to BSD/Linux that competition was based on and that it took 5 attempts to get something decent out and they had lost it all. If in early 2000s had MS did Yak Shaving to ensure CE is good, they would have few more trillions in that market cap.