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You are correct . But failure in the path is normal to get more experience so the competence needs always to be measured.

I think that I as a project founder would like to enter a market where there is already competition, just so I know what innovative decisions to make and not be taken by surprise.

must the founder be necessarily competent? well I think the team he works with should must be competitive, it is just a plus for the founder to be competitive ,