this is a really nice list.<p>I've just finished reading the excellent book recentley shared here⁰. Working through it made me realized that the start-up I joined is ignoring every advise in the book. The ycombinater youtube channel there is a great Sam Altman talk on starting-up¹ which drove the point home further (that I've bet on a losing horse).<p>As an engineer I constantly get bitten by joining awesome sounding new tech start-ups that despite awesome tech they don't survive the second year (they find a market fit and fail when scaling bc they ignore all the human aspects of what it means to be a company). And in my case it's never the tech that was at fault but lack of creating processes under which successful patterns can be repeated. Somehow it's <i></i>always<i></i> the dynamic of the people that dooms those projects. Every time I end up coming to the hard realization that there is no other option for me to quit the company after I've wasted a lot of time and nerves, and it's often more ugly than it should be.<p>⁰ <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17456999" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17456999</a><p>¹ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoqgAy3h4OM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoqgAy3h4OM</a>