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"Not every startup should"... complete that sentence with almost anything and it will be true.

Rather than a bunch of articles on different topics, I hope we can just agree that there isn't one rule fits all or we would all follow that rule and be successful.

It's exactly why you can't just copy how someone else does things and hope to get the same result.

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I dunno. Testing their ideas by the cheapest possible procedure seems like something that every startup should. Maybe there are exceptions, but that's not obvious at all.

It's ok that sometimes the cheapest possible option is still quite expensive. That isn't reason to use anything more expensive.

It is also true that not all startups that do it will succeed, and that not all startups that don't do it will fail. But it looks like the kind of thing that will increase the chances of any startup, not just a subset of them.

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