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Notes from 101 founder interviews

The six skills, seven recurring failure modes, and the pipeline behind the data.

Diagram of 101 founder interviews becoming six startup skillsThe toolkit

Six startup skills built from 101 founder interviews

What Solo Founder Playbook does, where its evidence comes from, and how to try its six Claude Code and Codex skills.

↗49.5 percent discussed failure and seven failure-mode countsFailure patterns

Seven founder failure modes in 101 interviews

A closer look at seven recurring risks in 101 Starter Story founder interviews, with counts and practical questions.

↗Five-step pipeline from videos to pattern libraryBehind the data

How 101 founder interviews became a searchable playbook

The five-step Starter Story Pipeline: collecting transcripts, analyzing interviews, and extracting reusable startup patterns.

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