Re:Spolsky: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
by tptacek on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @09:03PM
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Allow for the fact that I am probably totally wrong about this.
But, when I started reading JoS, Fog Creek was all about CityDesk. If they had gone for funding, they'd have done it to fund CityDesk.
CityDesk didn't work out for them.
That didn't matter, because there was no VC board to shutter the company or fire the management. And they hadn't run the VC-company playbook of hiring a 20-region direct sales force or running $1.5MM of ads to promote the product. So they weren't screwed.
But, when I started reading JoS, Fog Creek was all about CityDesk. If they had gone for funding, they'd have done it to fund CityDesk.
CityDesk didn't work out for them.
That didn't matter, because there was no VC board to shutter the company or fire the management. And they hadn't run the VC-company playbook of hiring a 20-region direct sales force or running $1.5MM of ads to promote the product. So they weren't screwed.
That's all I'm saying.