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The product blueprint step most founders skip — and why it kills MVPs before they launch

Idea → developer. That's the flow most first-time founders use.
No product blueprint. No defined scope. No user journey mapped before a single line of code.
Then six months in, the build looks nothing like the vision and costs three times the estimate.

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