An engineer’s guide to picking a startup | TechCrunch

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Complexity is your enemy

Most great companies are built on solving a big problem with an (after the fact) obvious new viewpoint.

Market is your friend

• When a great team meets a lousy market, market wins.
• When a lousy team meets a great market, market wins.
• When a great team meets a great market, something special happens.

Startups are hard and you have to make difficult decisions with limited data. You have to raise money from investors. You want a CEO who can help VCs see the vision.
All startups die when they run out of customers.

All startups die when they run out of engineers.

Vision & Mission

Almost every analysis of the startup journey shows that risk adjusted, you are better of keeping that BigCo job.

People overestimate what you can do in a year and they underestimate what you can do in a decade, unless you’re (Apple CEO) Steve Jobs.