If you're an early-stage startup, be careful with the CTO role. Make sure they can add value THROUGHOUT your operations, as oppose to "evangelizing" about your

If you're an early-stage startup, be careful with the CTO role. Make sure they can add value THROUGHOUT your operations, as oppose to "evangelizing" about your product. Too much time designing/feature-creep, and not enough time polishing/productizing/documenting == death. Make sure your product does a few things but does them better than anyone else. Define your core competency and stick to it, establish a name for yourself, then begin stacking on features to distance yourself while competitors play catchup. Any product with a feature list 10 feet wide but only a 1 foot deep, is still a baby pool. So guess what happens when a potential customer dives in head first during diligence? For some hackers, it may explain why they can't close a deal.