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Hello there, my first post here :) I understand your point, but i think that people need to start building prototypes, minimum viable products, and then (if they are lucky enough) will have all the fun to scale their startup. Talking about fundings at this stage is a bit premature, in my opinion.
imo its not really a startup in the HN sense of "find and validate a business model"--the business model is known, so imo its much more about skill of execution than iterating prototypes.
Iterating prototypes is execution.