This page discusses some of the common pitfalls for startups, which can often be a factor in their lack of success. Be embarrassed There is a famous quote by Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, which really resonates with some entrepreneurs: If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched …
Your startup idea may be great, but what ends up making it a success may be a little different or a lot different. A key part of the Agile methodology is to fail fast. What this means is, learn from mistakes quickly. Failing fast means measuring results, and continuously adapting until the results are better. …
Do you need to build your own “platform” or app? These days there are plenty of tools that will do a percentage of what you need, add some manual effort, and you have a means of transacting business. This is a good way for you to start operating, and learning what your customers need and …
It starts with something like: Let’s go serverless, and build micro-services and you could substitute many other technologies in there, whatever the flavour of the month is. Now your chosen technology is cool, I mean really cool, but we shouldn’t let the technology drive the business. Doing something like micro-services isn’t trivial. In theory each …
Scaling too early is related to over-engineering. Engineers worry about getting to the kind of scale that Facebook and Google have, so want to architect systems for that ultimate scale. This level of scalable engineering is not cheap, and will change the way you write your code, making it a slower process to develop it …