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❓ Research question

Does costly signaling ("showing the seams") produce the expected effect of filtering out misaligned investors without scaring away aligned ones?

Hipótesis: La señalización costosa —mostrar públicamente las iteraciones fallidas, los costos reales y las decisiones difíciles— filtra efectivamente a

Urgency Medium
Status Open
Area Territory & Sustainability

Hypothesis

Costly signaling —publicly showing failed iterations, real costs, and difficult decisions— effectively filters out misaligned investors because the cost of feigning interest in a project that shows its weaknesses is higher than seeking one that only shows its strengths.

Expected evidence

Teoría de señalización costosa (Zahavi, aplicada a economía por Spence). Aplicación documentada en el portal: todos los nodos incluyen "lo que no funcionó" como sección obligatoria. La tasa de conversión de leads calificados mejoró después de publicar los nodos de vulnerabilidad.

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