How to turn your biggest weakness into your competitive advantage
“I think that number one, the only thing that keep you afloat whenever you're hearing 200 rejections of VCs, like, 50 rejections of bs, is just your personal conviction into the thesis.”
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shell companies. They're they're they're literally the hardest people to target. Yeah. So you've turn you've turned your biggest weakness into your biggest strength, and I think that's a great lesson for any founder listening who's getting any sort of pushback is to try and think about, well, why am I doing it like this? Why why is this the model that's right?
I think you're right, and I would share two learnings observations here. I think that number one, the only thing that keep you afloat whenever you're hearing 200 rejections of VCs, like, 50 rejections of bs, is just your personal conviction into the thesis. Because I think that we had a bit of unfair
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Dan Lifshits shares how Dwelly transformed what seemed like their biggest weakness into their strongest competitive moat. He discusses the mindset shift needed when facing hundreds of rejections and explains how personal conviction in your thesis becomes the only thing keeping founders afloat during tough fundraising periods.
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This clip captures a powerful reframe that many founders can relate to - turning perceived weaknesses into strengths while surviving the emotional toll of repeated rejections.
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