One issue that I have seen is that many people will confuse anything more than slapping together code and checking it in as "premature optimization." Many of th

One issue that I have seen is that many people will confuse anything more than slapping together code and checking it in as "premature optimization." Many of the same people believe that the value of their code scales proportionately with its size. More code is always better, right? Poor code leads to technical debt, startup or not. Like all debts, if you don't bite the bullet and repay it, you will eventually be consumed by it.