So you woke up in the middle of the night with an epiphany for an innovative service or product. You honed your idea with your closest friends, reached out for advisors in the industry, launched your MVP (minimum viable product) and you were right! There’s a need — and a paying public. Now all you have to do is build your technical team to scale and deliver. Yikes!

It is tempting to immediately run out and “hire” technical resources and have them start building, but resist the urge. The first and most important step is to create a clearly defined plan. Technology changes very rapidly and even preferred coding languages and databases evolve. If you start with a forward thinking technical road map, you can save yourself a lot of grief from expensive redesigns and rebuilds.

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