The $30B Mistake: Why Startups Fail and Investors Sleepwalk Through It

💥 Massimiliano Sulpizi exposes what’s broken in **venture capital** and offers a cure: **Equity Match**, a platform blending **AI**, mentorship, and real founder support. Discover how he's teaching startups to build, not just pitch, in a world where 97.5% still fail.

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🧠 Executive Summary:

This world is sick.

Startups are collapsing. Founders are burning out. Investors are flying blind.

And no one is asking the question that actually matters:

Can this team really build?

In this episode of *Forge of Unicorns*, we sit down with Massimiliano Sulpizi, founder of Equity Match, who delivers a raw, unfiltered reality check on today’s startup ecosystem—and brings a cure.

He reveals:

- Why 97.5% of startups fail

- Why most VCs don’t know how to assess technical founders or software quality

- Why platforms offering funding without coaching are setting founders up to fail

- How Equity Match is rewriting the rules: helping founders *before* they’re investor-ready

- How the new Equity Match Academy helps entrepreneurs learn from real experience, not theory

We match Max’s ground truth with the macro data from VC latest report on the collapse in early-stage capital—and show you the solution hiding in plain sight:

The Software Craftsmanship Dojo®, a behavioral and technical benchmark for startup health.

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🎙️ Key Quotes:

- “Digital natives are not engineers. And investors are not mechanics.”

- “Startups pitch, but nobody checks if they can build.”

- “The future is open sourcing.”

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🔗 Links & Resources:

🌐 Explore Equity Match

🧪 Try the Software Craftsmanship Dojo®

📬 Subscribe to Forge of Unicorns

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📌 Hashtags & Tags:

#VentureCapital #EquityMatch #Startups #FounderSupport #AngelInvesting

#BehavioralEngineering #StartupFailure #TechDueDiligence #ForgeOfUnicorns #AI

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