Startup RX
Startup RX
Prassanna Ravishankar and James Leung
Episode 008 - Premature Scaling
57 minutes Posted Nov 28, 2022 at 12:38 am.
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Premature scaling is the number one cost for startup death. In this episode we explore the premature scaling problem decomposed in three arenas - Product, Operations and Engineering


References

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Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanfurr/2011/09/02/1-cause-of-startup-death-premature-scaling/?sh=3f066b4e1fc9

Premature optimization: https://stackify.com/premature-optimization-evil/

Juicero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero

Writing in space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space

Feature creep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep

Technical Debt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt