I get what you're saying; startups can be frantic and match almost all of those points. But a startup shouldn't exhibit sign #2. No matter how crazy things gets

I get what you're saying; startups can be frantic and match almost all of those points. But a startup shouldn't exhibit sign #2. No matter how crazy things gets everyone should have a vision of what the product should be and know what goal they're trying to reach. I think a startup where you can consistently observe sign#2, without being in a UAT[1] phase, is a startup that's about to fail. 1. http://www.techopedia.com/definition/3887/user-acceptance-testing-uat http://www.techopedia.com/definition/3887/user-acceptance-te...