Re:Is the Lean Startup Dead?
by cle on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @01:02PM
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In many companies, big complex software is desirable, because of poor incentive structures. I've seen many projects ballon into vastly over-complex nightmares, because engineers are often rewarded for solving "hard" and "complex" problems. So with complicit management (who are also rewarded when their engineers are promoted), they invent complexity and then "solve" it.
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Venture capital has corrupted the tech industry to its core.
The VC cash machine has brought us nothing except short term thinking, get-rich-quick schemes, social manipulation, herd mentality, idol-worship, media corruption and corporate growth.
I look forward to the next tech bubble. I hope they all get wiped out.
Re:Is the Lean Startup Dead?
by WalterSear on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:50PM
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Ill winds blow no-one any good
If they all get wiped out, it will be very good for me personally.
Firstly, I will enjoy watching them fail. It will make me happy intrinsically. If I lose my software engineer job and have to work as a janitor for a while, it would be totally worth it.
Secondly, the subsequent failure of their portfolio companies will free up a huge amount of marketshare in many industries; some of which I will be able to capture with my own side project until I can afford quit my janitor day job.