Tips for Technical Startup Founders

Hiring

• Evolve into leading a small team of engineers
• First hires are likely friends
• You'll start to have communication overhead
• Your role is morphing
  • 2-5 engineers: you still have ~ 70% time to code
  • 5-10 engineers: you'll be coding < 50%

Ideating

• Build prototype very quickly

Build an MVP

• Do things that don't scale
• Create a 90/10 solution
• Choose tech for iteration speed

Launched

• Quickly iterate with hard & soft data
• Continuously launch
• Balance building vs fixing