[ajmurmann]

"In fact, if you sleight performance or quality it is exactly equal to sleighting future business needs or interests."

This assumes that you are building something you will be using in that future which for most startups is not true. For most it will be a better trade off to iterate faster now and solidify the system once you know for a fact that it matches actual needs.

[p4wnc6]

Most start-ups are deemed by the market to be not useful. I'm not sure it's informative to draw lessons of the value of emphasizing quality ahead of short-term, less substantive "results" from the population of start-ups.