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Evaluation is not a verdict

A bounded excerpt from Closing: What Will You Do?.

It leaves the turtle somewhere else.

The same is true of you and your startup.

An evaluation is not a verdict on whether you won. It is an honest look at what your actions made more likely, which tools you have built, and which problems you are still financing, explaining, or pushing ahead of you.

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Money can still be a real constraint.

But if money is your answer, you must now be able to say what time it should buy, what change it should make possible, and which problem it must not be allowed to hide.

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