Startup Technical Diligence Is a Waste of Time
How to run a startup in 2016:<p>* No homebrewed tech allowed.  It's too "complex"<p>* We should only use off-the-shelf libraries and SDKs because bar-to-entry isn't a real investor risk ("Just trust me, I'm a charismatic CEO who played golf a few times with the best friend of the college roommate of the guy who helped the guy close Series A for Baidu")<p>* Soft skills, soft skills, soft skills!  Smiling > coding<p>* I don't know what technical debt is, but I'm sure we can safely rewrite our core product from scratch in between Series B and Series C.  Product owners, customer support teams, and quality assurance re-on-boarding is a money problem, not a leadership problem.<p>* Security audits?  I have no idea what those are, but lets incorporate IoT into our product suite somehow.  That seems hot right now to VCs.<p>Bubbles.  Bubbles everywhere.