[hwhwhwhhwhwh]

You already lost if your mental model to create something is based on a VC company's marketing outreach or blogger dude's publicity outreach attempt.

[ocean_moist]

If your mental model does not include some form of making something people want and you are trying to create a startup which has the sole goal of getting people to use and pay for your product, I think you would have a hard time being successful.