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No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
Sharing a reluctant, "node & postgres" approach to engineering management for early-stage startups
Antoine Boulanger
Hi! My name is Antoine Boulanger, an engineering operator and ex-founder who now writes pre-seed checks for AI, Infra, and DevTools companies.
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Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit