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Fintech founders underestimate compliance. Building the product is the easy part — KYC, AML, PCI-DSS, PSD2, MiCA, and getting a banking partner who'll touch you pre-revenue is what kills 80% of fintech ideas before they ever ship.
Customer acquisition in fintech is brutal because trust is binary. People either give you their money or they don't, and you don't get a second chance after a bad onboarding. Most fintech ideas fail because the founder can't explain the regulatory story in one sentence.
Unit economics in fintech are inverted vs SaaS. Interchange, FX, and float earn cents per transaction. You need volume before you can survive, but you need trust to get volume. This is the chicken-and-egg validation problem nobody talks about.