The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

The classic way to burn through cash is by hiring a lot of people.

This bites you twice: in addition to increasing your costs, it slows

you down—so money that's getting consumed faster has to last

longer. Most hackers understand why that happens; Fred Brooks

explained it in The Mythical Man-Month.We have three general suggestions about hiring: (a) don'... See more

what's the minimum you need to launch? We suggest startups think

about what they plan to do, identify a core that's both (a) useful

on its own and (b) something that can be incrementally expanded

into the whole project, and then get that done as soon as possible.This is the same approach I (and many other programmers) use for

writing software. Think ab... See more