Many founders might be feeling overwhelmed by seeing there is a good deal of hidden debt in their startup. Remember, the goal here isn’t to beat up founders and startups for the debts they’ve accumulated. The goal is to be able to identify those debts and start planning for how to mitigate them. Measure what is measurable—and make measurable what is not so! Startups will have hidden debts. However, they also have time to minimize the effect of those debts before the startup is sunk.