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Came across this article by Steve Blank – “Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code“. This can be summed up as:

• Under the pressures of growth, some startups allow their code base to get messy.
• This mess – and the pressure to keep it working – results, over time, in a slower delivery of features.
• This leads to a failure to adapt, which is seen as an existential threat to the future of the business,
• The business decides that a rewrite of the product is the way to go.
• This leads to death.

I don’t dispute the main premise of the article, but I do dispute the title. The answer is to rewrite the product. The question is: how do you do that?

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