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It's often rooted in just saving overhead in the the slimmer startup days by experimenting with shortcuts and "innovations".

Big business processes and techniques often take big business capital and big business experience. But as demonstrated by the success of many startups that avoid traditional processes in those early days, the processes are not strictly necessary.

Avoiding them may prove brilliantly competitive, or may prove to be some organizational debt that gets carried forward. Either way, the early days of a startup are very sensitive, and a little savings can make a world of difference.