Every gain has its cost; it's the balance of giving and taking that truly creates flexibility.
When there are few institutional investors and many retail traders, it’s a bad setup—because everyone’s already here to carry the cart. You can’t expect institutions to lift retail’s load, right? Sure, institutions might miss out initially, then buy back in at higher prices from retail, handing retail a fat profit—but that scenario hasn’t happened yet.
1. Figure out what people actually want.
2. Manually run through the monetization model yourself.
3. Use tools or hire help to scale your already-validated prototype system while keeping it profitable.
Being great at something has nothing to do with running a business. It's simply about identifying needs and fulfilling them.
Excellence alone isn't valuable. What matters is understanding market demand, diving in alone, and manually proving the profitability model before anything else.