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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

No engineering team. So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. But where it makes sense, that team may also include engineers building new experiments or prototypes to try with customers. You need a problem team and a solution team."

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. One last thought.