"Every startup founder has a good idea — that's never the bottleneck. The real question is whether solving the problem creates enough economic impact to sustain a business. Two founders taught me this last month: one built an 'AI CFO' while seeking advice from human finance pros themselves; another, building a platform for teachers, had the courage to say it wasn't a startup — it was a nonprofit. Here's checklist item #1 for every founder."

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"Sam Bankman-Fried sat on a witness stand in a Manhattan federal courtroom, faced a jury, and offered the defence of a man who backed his car into a mailbox. Asked point blank if he defrauded anyone, he said no. Asked if he took customer funds, he said no. He conceded, almost generously, that he'd made 'a number of small mistakes and a number of large mistakes.' The biggest one, he explained, was not having a proper risk management team."

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