ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. Application Development Activity. The consequences of this are well known to us today.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 22, 2018
The develop in-house side would point to the existing investment in staff talent. If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application? There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.
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Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 2, 2013
We’ve especially been interested in companies that make software developers and DevOps lives better. My partners and I often worry about companies we’ve invested in having enough bandwidth and resources to adequately cover issues of reliability, availability, and security. And then much pain ensues.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 22, 2019
These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software help keep teams in sync. Collaboration tools have improved.
Austin Startup
JULY 8, 2017
I can’t tell you how many times I run into first-time founders who’ve been fed absolute nonsense from ‘advisors’ ‘mentors’ or similarly named people about their ‘secrets’ for managing legal spend. Last time I checked a solid software developer will cost you six figures in salary; ignoring equity.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 17, 2013
5 Things Founders Don’t Talk About | Forbes – [link]. “As a founder, your job isn’t to make a great product. Good post by Ben Milne about focus and the challenges of having enough mental “bandwidth” – [link]. Every Entrepreneur’s Least Favorite Question | HBR – [link].
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