[maxmarmer]

Hey Max here...one of the authors of the study,

Our study contains startups that are in stages across the board, (Discovery, Validation, Efficiency, Scale).

While many of the YC startups don't reach the Scale stage, and maybe don't scale up their team or or raise too much money, they can still prematurely scale the product by over-engineering the product and not doing enough customer development. There are more nuanced case of premature scaling that are also discussed in the report.

[brlewis]

I was going to post here asking what sort of scaling the report was talking about since asking here would be faster than registering to get the report. Now I have your answer, but the answer is intriguing enough that I'll probably go ahead and register.