Great entrepreneurs do more than identify markets. They identify places where something important is missing — and determine whether they can legitimately, responsibly and sustainably fill that gap. That requires moving from Total Addressable Market to Total Addressable Void.
Preventing startup failure therefore requires more than product–market fit. It requires Entrepreneurial Change Readiness (ECR): the collective capacity of founders and their stakeholders to understand, accept, support and sustain the changes a venture introduces.
The Esther Effect is the ability to understand a system deeply enough to change it, courageously enough to act when the opportunity comes, and deliberately enough to make the change last.
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