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Typical First Years of Startup Engineering Leadership

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After being around VC backed software startups for quite a while now, I’ve noticed a pattern regarding how technical management and leadership happens as the company grows. The most successful startups manage to understand and adapt quickly to those different phases. Others struggle, waste time and energy to eventually fail after they ran out of money. In this article, I’ll go through the different steps a decently successful, pretty typical, VC backed startup goes through until its Series A. I’ll simplify a few things for brevity, but you’ll get the general direction. Note that while I witnessed or lived through some of those situations, this is not the story of a specific startup. Let’s talk about Startup XYZ that wants to build a B2B SaaS. The company is made up of 3 co-founders. They all have some professional experience in their field, but it’s their first time building a company. The CTO is a successful software engineer with 5 years experience building products but with no real

Typical First Years of Startup Engineering Leadership Typical First Years of Startup Engineering Leadership 17 July 2024 After being around VC backed software startups for quite a while now, I’ve noticed a pattern regarding how technical management and leadership happens as the company grows. The most successful startups manage to understand and adapt quickly to those different phases. Others struggle, waste time and energy to eventually fail after they run out of money. In this article, I’ll go through the different steps a decently successful, pretty typical, VC backed startup goes through u

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