I feel you are talking about a situation that rarely exists. It does happen at least somewhat when you see a large incumbent versus a startup, but in those cases a startup is generally nimble and has a fighting chance.
IMO, if technical debt is what destroys your startup then you probably so poorly understood the customer problem early on that you engineered a solution that was going to fail either way. In all the companies I help I almost always see bad technical decisions, but their marketing is what is hurting them the most not their tech debt.
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I feel you are talking about a situation that rarely exists. It does happen at least somewhat when you see a large incumbent versus a startup, but in those cases a startup is generally nimble and has a fighting chance.
IMO, if technical debt is what destroys your startup then you probably so poorly understood the customer problem early on that you engineered a solution that was going to fail either way. In all the companies I help I almost always see bad technical decisions, but their marketing is what is hurting them the most not their tech debt.