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At Microsoft there used to be a saying that if you throw more developers at a problem, it doesn’t necessarily speed up its development. Things are usually ready when they want to be. Throwing more people at it doesn’t change anything. In fact, smaller more focused teams have demonstrated themselves able to outdo larger teams over and over again. In essence the edge for all startups is their nimbleness.
Patience people. Patience. It’s not a virtue. For a startup founder it’s a necessary skill to be able to identify when to speed up business and customer development and when to slow down to improve your product or measure and recalibrate your approach. For the first 2–3years, you are supposed to constantly be in experimentation / iteration mode. Constantly breaking stuff to figure out where the alpha is. Stopping, starting and stumbling are just natural courses pretty much every startup takes and are usually twice as expensive as you originally budgeted. iROKO has seen some pretty t...