Chou: Early startups should use familiar tech until product-market fit
Lillian Chou · Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator · Oct 10, 2018 · at 22:14
Second Measure COO Lillian Chou shares engineering strategy advice for early-stage founders during a Y Combinator panel on building MVP software.
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“It's more important in the early days to be able to Iterate quickly, and usually that comes from using the technology that you know the best and building things in a modular way such that once you actually find that product market fit and know what your audience needs, then you can focus on that area and actually select the technologies that are best fit for that problem.”
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