[randall]

"Subsequently many of the points won't sit well with the techie crowd."

I'm not sure what you mean? Why wouldn't battle-tested well-worn advice work with the techie crowd? And who is the techie crowd? Programmers? Tech lovers?

I'm just confused by your comment.

[ryguytilidie]

This was the first thing I thought as well. Honestly all of them seemed fairly common sense and obvious. Didn't really disagree with any.

[mbesto]

Good point. I should have explained.

Things like:

"Stop writing code"

"Don't worry about engineering"

"It's a marathon"

Won't sit well with technical people (mainly programmers, CTO co-founder, etc)

[nona]

As a tech co-founder, I thought this deck was spot on. Maybe it's because I've been through that experience that I don't feel threatened at all byt hat slide.

"Stop writing code/did you talk to your customers yet?" - he's so right. I've had to trash a lot of iterations of our code because we didn't heed (or grok) this advice.

I still think code is very important. But coding the best thing ever and it not being used is a nearly 100% waste of effort.

I can imagine that developers who haven't gone through such an experience might feel different, though.

[tel]

Probably w.r.t. handling market risk before tech risk and the general dangers of growing an MVP.