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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • It’s not easy to balance new features vs paying technical debt. I see building software like buying a house.

    Very few young people can wait long enough to buy a house in cash - they need a mortgage.

    Very few young companies can afford wait long enough to build perfect software so they need to borrow some technical debt.

    Just like your mortgage, you need to pay back technical debt even though you’d like to spend your money (or ressources) elsewhere.



  • It is literally right there on the top right corner: “Startups are companies that are designed to grow and scale rapidly.”. With Food & Beverage you have to produce and sell inventory - you want to double your sales, you need to double your production. That doesn’t scale at the same magnitude as a tech company who sell the same service many times over.


  • With a cash strapped startup you do need to deliver version one fast and version two right. If you take the time to it right at the beginning, chances are that you will run out of money before the product is even out.

    Worse, you might work your ass off building something polished that will not resonate with the market and generate any sales - so you will have to redo it all anyway. It is very very very very rare that a startup nails the product market fit on the first try.


  • There are other entrepreneurship subs, even food & beverage related ones that will probably more helpful. “Startups” refers here to tech companies that can scale exponentially - they have their own set of challenges that won’t apply to you. You will have some challenges that tech startups don’t usually have - like inventory.