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Our answer tells you to ask builders what breaks in production, and this is a concrete checklist of what that actually means. It lays out the technical questions serious evaluators ask about architecture, dependencies, and risk, in language a non-technical founder can follow. Use it as a script when you sit down with the engineers you trust.
Technical Due Diligence Preparation Guide (The Startup CTO's Field Guide)
From startupctobook.com by Gareth Price ~20 min
- Ask where the single points of failure and key-person risks are
- A trend is only real for you if it survives your production constraints
- Self-aware honesty about risk matters more than a perfect answer
