Show High Interest, Then Stall

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Show High Interest, Then Stall = SHITS

Defined in Kawasaki’s Art of the Start as a tactic commonly employed by the people holding the purse strings. A precursor to the Mushroom Treatment, where caca of another kind functions as an information substitute.