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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by dragonwriter on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:19AM (#11080225)
Aren't startups usually corporations ab initio?
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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by camillomiller on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:21AM (#11080237)
Well, they shouldn't gain the bloated-ness of a 40yo bureaucratic corporation that fast, though? At least, that's what all the theories about the way startups should operate are about...
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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by mercer on Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:54AM (#11080832)
Perhaps it's a variation on Parkinson's Law [1]? "The amount of bloat/bureacracy expands so as to fill the budget available to the company?"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

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