Yeah, if I could go back in time I'd tell myself "Software has always been late, it's always going to be late, you can work yourself extra-hard to make it less late, but it's not YOUR PROBLEM. You can compensate for the malfunction of the organization but you won't be thanked, you won't learn as much by hacking, and it almost never matters anyways because the startup either will get traction or it won't, it never fails by a margin of 5%"