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The funding round lands, the champagne pops, and the story becomes expensive
Every now and then, my LinkedIn feed shows posts like these:
Oct 8
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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September 2026
Founders are stubborn. That is only half the problem.
Earlier this year, just as I had started writing my book, I had a conversation with an investment manager at a UK fund.
Sep 23
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Anjali Bhatnagar
When execution is no longer scarce
Why abundance is bringing the value of the idea back, and what that costs the founder who commits to one.
Sep 7
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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August 2026
The most expensive belief you never check
It sits behind every big commitment, a new build, a new hire, a new market, and almost no one stops to test it.
Aug 12
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Anjali Bhatnagar
July 2026
Do we, and the world, really need more innovation?
Innovation is building something new that creates value. Almost everything we celebrate is about the first word. The second word, value is something we…
Jul 30
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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Norway knows how to build champions.
It just never tried to build founders.
Jul 8
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Anjali Bhatnagar
June 2026
Fail for a reason worth failing for
Most startups don't die from the wrong bet. They die from spending before they checked.
Jun 30
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Anjali Bhatnagar
The instinct that built companies, and the money that changed it
I did not come to entrepreneurship empty-handed.
Jun 18
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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Startup failure in Norway: celebrated on one side, shamed on the other, and understood by neither
There are two camps in Norway in the ways they talk about a startup that dies.
Jun 11
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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May 2026
What reMarkable got right, and what came after
Keeping the only position is work that never stops
May 25
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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Why I wrote a book about startup failure
A few months after my company went down, I went looking for what I had missed. I found a pattern.
May 7
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Anjali Bhatnagar
April 2026
AI makes it faster to build. That is not the problem anyone needed solved.
I am writing a book about why good startups fail — and why most of that failure is visible before it becomes irreversible.
Apr 29
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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