{"id":1979,"date":"2026-05-21T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/21\/ive-seen-founders-raise-50m-by-talking-to-customers-for-6-months-before-writing-a-sin\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:10:17","slug":"ive-seen-founders-raise-50m-by-talking-to-customers-for-6-months-before-writing-a-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/05\/21\/ive-seen-founders-raise-50m-by-talking-to-customers-for-6-months-before-writing-a-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve seen founders raise $50M by talking to customers for 6 months before writing a sin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;ve seen founders raise $50M by talking to customers for 6 months before writing a single line of code. Most do it backwards.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakamsanik\/status\/2057506993129353595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#039;ve seen founders raise $50M by talking to customers for 6 months before writing a single line of code. Most&#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-1979","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\/1979","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=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}