Whereas a 20 year old founder with no experience of working in a big company will be saved from this kind of mistake through sheer ignorance.
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When people from big companies start startups, they often make the mistake of reproducing aspects of big companies that are actually flaws, because they think this is just how companies work.
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The worst mistake refugees from big companies make when starting startups is probably to divide functions too much. They'll have separate people doing sales, marketing, and product development. Whereas in a startup it's ideal if one person does all three initially.
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What are some examples?
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One example: 1 - Got an idea 2 - Hire a bunch of people to execute Another: 1 - Got an MVP that works 2 - Start to think about how to fit on compliance
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Or maybe they know what doesn't works and don't reproduce the same aspects at their startups.
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There's no reason to expect that all strategies that work for organisations with large scale would work for startups.
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I read a fascinating post on normalization of deviance that is about this.https://twitter.com/vitabenes/status/1137011880806027266 …
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The reverse is also true i.e. implementing things that actually work
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Cargo cult? :)
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they do not try unconventional roadmap. They are much influence by the way how corporate hierarchy works.
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