Gary Smart @gnsmart
Revealing the hidden patterns that undermine technical startups. Hi! I'm an Ex-nerd software engineer, wanna-be rock star, turned tech-founder advisor. garysmart.com.au Australia Joined July 2009-
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I just published The Risk of Turning People Into Infrastructure — Tech Startup Dynamics medium.com/p/the-risk-of-…
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I just published Tech Startup Insights - The Risk of Building Progress on Depleted People medium.com/p/the-risk-of-…
I just published The Danger of Borrowed Confidence in Technical Startups medium.com/p/the-danger-o…
There’s a real human cost to tech startups: burnout, breakdown, and the quiet damage left behind. Founders often bear the brunt, but they’re not the only casualties. After decades in fast-paced startups, I’ve seen many ventures fail. The human toll is the story rarely told.
Demo mode ≠ Product mode. Most founders learn this the expensive way. Investors fall for it. Customers don’t.
If your system breaks at scale, the problem didn’t start there. It started in design.
Most software startup 'products' are just expensive demos. The polish looks impressive in the pitch deck. But it falls apart the moment real customers touch it.
Most software developments don’t fail under load. They fail under assumptions nobody revisited.
Remember Clippy? What about Bob? Two of the early (and short-lived) pioneers of AI assistants. #clippy #AI #Microsoft #90sTech #TechThrowback
Ha! It nailed me with the response. I guess AI knows it's limitations :) I’ve felt it brewing for a while now... code’s becoming easier to generate. But navigating humans? That’s still the hard bit (impossible bit?) to automate.
Do you want to know how to make your presentations and your scrum updates extremely boring? Use bullet points. A snipped from Google Dev Fest 2024 #GoogleDeveloperFestival #SoftSkills #Storytelling
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