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Jess Lee

More processes and more stakeholders with less change and less experiments. In my experience, decision-making takes a lot longer at bigger organizations. I've been told that a successful MVP is something that works 80% of the time -- but it's hard to take that mentality to heart when there are biz dev folks who really need everything to be running perfectly all the time, especially if the 'clients' will freak out if the padding on the user profile photo changes by 3px.

In order to not fall into that, scrappy startups should think hard about their boundaries/culture/relationships with stakeholders early on.