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The dust bitter gennie! 🧞 Short Case study SchoolGennie, launched in 2013 by Pradeep Goyal, aimed to revolutionize school management in India 🫣 It crashed and burned within a year, Why? 1. No Market Validation: They didn’t check if anyone actua

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Ouch, that's a brutal reality check on the pitfalls that can sink even a well-intentioned startup like SchoolGennie. No market validation is startup execution 101 - you have to deeply understand if there's actual demand for your solution before overbuilding the product. Reminds me of those Startup Bedtime stories...

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