[Yadi]

Thanks, yes it's hard to point out one specific example of a startup, because it can be an inter-related cause as you mentioned.

Though someone else here mentioned how friendster lost their game due to technical debt:

I looked it up and it looks like that indeed it was an issue.

http://highscalability.com/friendster-lost-lead-because-fail...

> "Technical debt reduces uptime, increases bugginess, and makes it harder to fix bugs."

Yes, that is one of my concerns usually. It's good to go fast and build more, but not to an extend where it slows the process down on longer run.

[hga]

Thanks for that link.

The comments are interesting, but the closing one by a Mark Peterson again goes to the bottom line of unaddressed technical debt by putting a date on the best known general technical problem:

Friendster failed in the summer of 2003 when it never took less than a minute to log into the site. Where it never took less than a minute to visit any page. Even pages that should/could have been static.

Debate about any missing feature after summer 2003 is less than moot.

Especially since added features or allowing viewing by the not logged in would tend to further slow down the site.