Re:Many software companies are a joke
by Joel_Mckay on Monday May 16, 2022 @08:55AM
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The 3 year survival odds are about 1:23 for software/services startups, and 1:70 for hardware projects.
I have culled many half-arsed options... and the decisions are far from arbitrary. Also, who budgets for a project burning over $100k a month in labor without a detailed plan... lol
I agree with what you wrote here... I just don't see how it relates to what I said.
Start-up have terrible survival odds. Decisions should not be arbitrary. There should be a detailed plan.
That moment when one person recognizes what is happening in a conversation; namely;
1. when two people are "talking past" each other.
2. It isn't only about 'what I'm saying'; multiple streams of conversation can happen at the same time and all be useful and even true
And I do have specific real cases from my experience in mind... One of a great product that never finished (money ran out, CEO didn't want to provide something that was for "a single customer" as in your words), another of a shitty buggy unmaintainable software that did grow a company from 4 to 100 employees then to an exit and only then came the nice eased-back rewrite.