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The Founder Trap – When Your Success Becomes Your Ceiling

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The Problem: You’ve built a $5M business on personal relationships and heroic effort – but that’s your ceiling. 78% of companies with product-market fit fail to scale because the founder is both engine and bottleneck. New hires can’t replicate your success, deals stall without you, and your instincts live only in your head. Whether you want to scale, sell, or step back – you can’t. The business is you.

The Shift: From founder-dependent to system-enabled. What you do instinctively must become what your team does systematically. This isn’t about working harder – it’s about making your magic transferable through frameworks, process maps, and repeatable methodologies.

The Solution: Systematise your value … read more by subscribing.

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