I Finally Figured Out Why Investors Won’t Invest in Solo Founders

Hint: It’s the same reason most founders prefer working by themselves

Aaron Dinin, PhD
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readJan 23, 2023

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One of the most sacred “rules” across the startup investing world is that investors don’t invest in solo founders. Sure, there are occasional exceptions, but the exceptions are rare and always have good reasons for having happened. For…

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com