Re:Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
by inopinatus on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:46AM
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That may be true, but it isn't a reason not to try. Heck in the process you may learn the industry, just too late for current venture. It is however a reason to be willing to recognise a flop and abandon it for something else.
Re:Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
by philipov on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:49AM
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Yes, but what I'm actually trying to do is cast suspicion on the dichotomy between industry and customers. Industry is not a thing that exists. There are only people, their objectives, their resources, and their problems. Those are the things that need understanding.
Re:Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers
by throwaway2016a on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:51AM
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Perhaps I chose the wrong word. I was looking for a word to describe the biases of people entrenched within an industry.
You can't understand your customers if you don't understand their industry. Picking customers is like investing: if you pick a bunch of customers that are not going to win their industry, you won't thrive either.