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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. This makes lean supply chains more robust in the face of the unexpected: if sales suddenly dry up, they are stuck with less unsold inventory and simultaneously have less debt to service. pay 'interest').

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. Traditional department labels just make it harder. Excellent post.