But in our work, tariffs are rarely the thing that actually kills a market entry. They're annoying, they're costly, but they're knowable. What kills deals is softer: a distributor who overpromises reach, a price point set on a hunch, or a launch timed against a demand curve nobody checked.
So I'll ask directly — when you look back at a market entry that underperformed, what was the real cause?
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