Startup
Tips for Technical Startup Founders
- Evolve into leading a small team of engineers
Mar 202510 min read
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