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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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The founder who can't stop moving
Moving fast is the signal. It is also the blindfold.
Apr 22
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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AI might not kill the big companies. It might actually save them.
The startup model is breaking. Here is what that means for the companies it was supposed to disrupt.
Apr 6
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Anjali Bhatnagar
March 2026
The most expensive moment in a startup's life isn't failure. It's raising capital.
Before you scale — my series on why startups struggle to scale — has moved to LinkedIn, where it’s finding the right audience.
Mar 27
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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Betting on AI is not an investment strategy
Why the economics of AI don't work the way most investors think
Mar 17
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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February 2026
The middle of retail is about to get very uncomfortable
I spent a day recently at a retail tech seminar.
Feb 27
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Anjali Bhatnagar
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