A founder breaks down why acquisitions succeed more often than startups from zero, and why poor code quality tanks both. Concrete mistakes to avoid if you're building or buying a company.
A lot of the mistakes that I see with startups or, you know, acquisitions, I haven't really heard too many in terms of acquisitions, aside from, you know, code being awful, had to rebuild, you know, the code base, stuff like that. But, you know, that stuff being shared, like the common pitfalls of an acquisition, you know, people can learn from that and then avoid those mistakes. But, yeah, with any sort of investment or any sort of, you know, know, entrepreneurial endeavor, there's a very, very high risk of failure. It's literally, you have, you know, a 10% chance of success starting a business. I would argue your success, your chances of success when acquiring a business is probably higher because you're skipping over, you know, some of the hardest parts, like finding customers and product market fit.
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