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Pavan Kumar Ennamuri

Hey I am on Medial • 12h

🚨 What the heck is Funding-Market Fit? I learned it the hard way. When I started building my travel-tech idea, I got pulled into “startup paperwork mode”: 👉 Should we register as Pvt Ltd or LLP? 👉 What about compliance costs? 👉 Do we need a CA on day one? It felt like progress… but really, I was just paying for a very expensive hobby. That’s when it hit me: 👉 Validate your idea with cash, not compliments. Because: Compliments don’t pay your server bills. Compliments don’t prove demand. Compliments don’t save you when things get hard. Cash does. That’s why I started thinking in terms of Funding-Market Fit: ✅ Product-Market Fit gets you users. Funding-Market Fit gets you survival. ✅ It’s proof your product deserves capital — not just code. ✅ Until you hit it, your “company” is just paperwork. Here’s what it looks like in practice: 1️⃣ Build an MVP. 2️⃣ Market it before launch (Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn are free). 3️⃣ Get paying users — even if it’s ₹100, even if it’s ugly. 4️⃣ Only then, register the company or think about raising. Because at the end of the day: Compliments are free. Cash isn’t. That’s Funding-Market Fit. 👉 So if you’re building, don’t just chase users. Validate your idea with cash, not claps. 💭 Now tell me — did you register your startup before your first rupee of revenue? Worth it, or just expensive paperwork flex?

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