The Brilliant Basics of Building a Startup ft. Vijay Rajagopal
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🎯 Great startups aren’t built on complex strategies. They’re built on brilliant basics. In this conversation, Vijay Rajagopal breaks down the three fundamentals he looks for when evaluating a business. First: Market Opportunity You can build an incredible product, but if the addressable market is limited, growth will always have a ceiling. Second: A Clear USP What makes the solution different? More importantly, why would a customer choose it over everything else? Because sustainable businesses are built customer-backward, not idea-forward. And third: The Founder and Founding Team 🔹 Experience 🔹 Expertise 🔹 Hunger to solve the problem 🔹 Integrity in how they build These aren’t flashy metrics. But they are the foundations that determine whether a company lasts. Great companies don…