Walk Alone, the Start-up’s Silent Season
Every founder faces a moment when silence becomes strategy. The early stage of building anything meaningful is not a parade, it is a pilgrimage. Not everyone deserves to hear your plans, because not everyone has earned the right to understand them.
Research from Harvard Business School found that entrepreneurs who share their ideas too early often experience a 30% decline in execution success, not because the ideas were weak, but because of exposure to what psychologist Julian Rotter called “external locus interference”, the doubts, projections and unsolicited opinions of others. In short, too many voices distort your vision.
Malcolm Gladwell often speaks about “the tipping point”, that fragile threshold where momentum transforms from invisible effort into undeniable proof. Before that moment, the data looks quiet. Growth feels slow. Even your closest supporters may not see the shape of what’s emerging. That is why true…
