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- The least successful startups often had founders who were hard to communicate with, as if there was a wall between them.
- The most successful startups had founders who were resourceful and could 'take care of themselves,' requiring minimal guidance.
- Resourcefulness includes conversational resourcefulness, which involves fully understanding and chasing down implications of what is said.
- Unsuccessful founders were not unintelligent but lacked eagerness to follow through on implications, showing a weakness-based conservatism.
- Communication difficulty was a symptom of a deeper lack of resourcefulness, affecting funding, users, and idea generation.