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How to make decisions when startup co-founders have equal power but different visions

Our startup team has three co-founders and we all have equal equity but very different relationships to risk and when we disagree about product direction it becomes this weird dance where nobody wants to be the one who forces a decision. We've been stuck on the same feature set for two months because we keep compromising toward something none of us actually believe in.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A founding team is paralyzed by the gap between democratic ideals and the need for creative decisiveness.

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