<story><title>Tech Due Diligence Calculator</title><url>https://decodingvc.gitbooks.io/p9-startup-tech-due-diligence-calculator/content/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rsweeney21</author><text>.9 is an angel investor. They say they like to be the first money in. Many of the things on this checklist shouldn&amp;#x27;t even be on your radar until after seed or series a. Paying thousands of dollars for employees to attend conferences, hiring a chief product officer, thinking about scaling by x100000, worrying about multi cloud, avoiding vendor lock in, unit test coverage, one click deploys...and the list goes on.  This is textbook over engineering and the HN crowd is very vulnerable to it.&lt;p&gt;Pre-angel funding you should take every hack and shortcut you can to get something into your users hands.&lt;p&gt;Please ignore this checklist. It is really bad advice.&lt;p&gt;(source: 2 time founder, over $16M raised from VC. I have made many of these mistakes.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Tech Due Diligence Calculator</title><url>https://decodingvc.gitbooks.io/p9-startup-tech-due-diligence-calculator/content/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>A few of these make unwarranted assumptions, though this may be based on the kinds of companies they invest in. Examples:&lt;p&gt;S1.3b - For several types of software, releasing continuously is an anti-pattern. Not only will it annoy your customers, it will significantly increase the cost of development. Not every tech startup is a website.&lt;p&gt;S1.4b - Same as above, not every kind of software application can be properly monitored without custom monitoring development, though most can. If someone develops a custom monitoring solution, you should at least understand why first; using an off-the-shelf solution in some cases would be a negative.&lt;p&gt;S2.6g - There should be an on-premise option. For several industries and applications it is required by the customers and&amp;#x2F;or IaaS has substantial adverse economics. The correct answer is that there is a financial model that captures these CapEx&amp;#x2F;OpEx tradeoffs. I&amp;#x27;ve seen too many startups burn millions of dollars per year unnecessarily because they never did the math. (You should always be able to easily deploy across IaaS and on-prem though.)</text></comment>