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I think I can see the value of openness in my own personal experience (a couple of moderately successful startups). Of course, who knows how wildly successful
by webwright 19y ago
I think I can see the value of openness in my own personal experience (a couple of moderately successful startups). Of course, who knows how wildly successful I would've been had I been more paranoid? :-)
Google is another fine example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
Reading "Founders at Work" is a good exercise... Not a lot of stealth mode mentioned there.
Doesn't seem scant to me, though I'll concede it isn't particularly scientific.
- jamesbritt 19y agoThanks for the reply. I tend to think you are largely correct for certain groups and practices, though that's just gut feeling. I read most of Founders at Work; I don't recall much indiscriminate broadcasting of ideas and intent, but it's been a while. For myself I find it useful to kick around ideas with a small local group of developers and business owners. The collective Bozometer is very handy, and indeed people are good about suggesting things I would not have thought of. I'm not so sure that scales well to the general Internet and infinite strangers, but I've nothing concrete to back that up. Just more gut feeling.