> The value is in well-engineered stuff A start-ups needs to survive long enough to find a business model and profitability, and that becomes much harder when

> The value is in well-engineered stuff A start-ups needs to survive long enough to find a business model and profitability, and that becomes much harder when you're not a technology company and put technology first. For every Google that succeeded, there a dozen Facebook and Twitter's that took a "good enough" approach. No shortage of well-engineered products in the graveyard. Also keep in mind that if a company makes it long enough and you continue to grow, you're engineering team output will be many multiples of what it was when you made some earlier mistakes. Much easier for a few hundred engineers to fix problems created by a dozen. Bad business models kill software much, much more than bad software kills businesses.