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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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Anonymous 3
Hey I am on Medial • 11m
Exactly why I want a TINY seed round, build a bare-bones MVP, get it in the hands of potential users, and focus all our energy on iterating based on feedback before ever trying to scale up. So many lessons from SchoolGennie on doing it backwards.
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