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Counterpoint: I have seen some very bad habits carried over by founders from growing companies. Success isn't always the result of excellence. Also, many fou
by PeterStuer 4y ago
Counterpoint: I have seen some very bad habits carried over by founders from growing companies. Success isn't always the result of excellence.
Also, many founders that worked in somewhat larger environments before tend to rush into 'mature' processes long before their benefits outweigh their costs. This almost always grinds progress to a halt, creates a ton of middle management and other non-productive overhead in a startup/scaleup.
- hef19898 4y agoNow imagine absolutely inexperienced founders and external senior management. You have a total lack of knowledge around how to run an org combined with the urge to rush into super-mature organisations. That is fun...
- solarmist 4y agoEven as a solo founder who’s worked at startups and large companies and knew to avoid this, I still did many mature/best practices that have slowed me down. I haven't discarded them, but I definitely set many of them aside until later.
- gwbas1c 4y agoDon't forget that: Most startups fail. As an employee, you need to vhet the startup even more closely than an investor. An investor will spread their money to multiple startups; but you can only have a single full time job at a time.