{"id":1857,"date":"2026-04-20T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/the-best-startups-ive-invested-in-had-these-3-red-flags-tiny-addressable-market-foun\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:50:19","slug":"the-best-startups-ive-invested-in-had-these-3-red-flags-tiny-addressable-market-foun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/the-best-startups-ive-invested-in-had-these-3-red-flags-tiny-addressable-market-foun\/","title":{"rendered":"The best startups I&#8217;ve invested in had these 3 red flags: Tiny addressable market, Foun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best startups I&#039;ve invested in had these 3 red flags: Tiny addressable market, Founder with zero experience, Product that seemed too simple. Pattern recognition can blind you to outliers.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2046147527511355550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best startups I&#039;ve invested in had these 3 red flags: Tiny addressable market, Founder with zero experience, Product that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-posts","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}