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Re:On Starting a Software Business by ridruejo on Sunday June 25, 2017 @02:33PM (#14631411)
The point is scaling without increasing linearly the number of employees. Accenture has approx. 400K employees
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Re:On Starting a Software Business by JamesNK on Sunday June 25, 2017 @07:17PM (#14632786)
A succinct way of putting it is there is a finite profit margin on consulting.
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Re:On Starting a Software Business by dgacmu on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:25PM (#14633609)
Agreeing: https://priceonomics.com/which-companies-have-the-highest-re...

Accenture is #493 of the S&P500, at $101k of revenue per employee. (!) They're doing a bit better than McDonalds (#497). The scalability argument holds -- compare to Netflix, which scales quite well (#23, $1.9M/employee).

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