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Re:Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering? by quacked on Monday February 20, 2023 @10:58AM (#34869318)
Yeah the difficulty isn't even thinking of a good idea, it's reconstructing the enormous legal barriers, government contracts, and relationships with private capital that the existing tech companies have cemented over decades.
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Re:Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering? by koheripbal on Monday February 20, 2023 @11:28AM (#34869654)
The larger barrier will be coming up with products that people are willing to pay for.
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Re:Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering? by asdff on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:46PM (#34871305)
Thats one way to market yourself, but not the only way. For example, consultancies don't come up with products people are willing to pay for. They are hired as a service to do work on a project, but they aren't selling things off the shelf. A software "consultancy" could operate in a similar way, where customers say "we need engineering labor to achieve our goals" and this agency comes in with the labor that develops the product to meet the companies needs.
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