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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Consider the timeline of adding a technical support team member. Predictability is also required for healthy team-growth.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. For this product, I later realized that I was the software architect, the frontend engineer, the backend engineer, the database administrator, the systems administrator, the QA engineer, and lastly I was the only technical support guy.