We know what goes wrong in early-stage ventures. We lack a rigorous, repeatable system for fixing it under real-world constraints.
Validation, Go-to-Market, and Product are treated as silos. We lack a unified Operating System that treats them as a single continuous experiment.
Literature focuses on the "hero founder". It fails to address how validation scales when run by dedicated teams across multiple concurrent ventures.
In a commoditized software world, we must validate structural defensibility on day one, not defer it.
Validation is often advisory, not binding. We need strict protocols where funding is tied to evidence thresholds.
Current frameworks were built for a world where building was expensive. AI makes building trivial. The new scarcity is attention and trust.