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> When you invest in a product or platform, do you not want to be able to evaluate whether it will be around in 3 years? How do you judge based on that? Even A
by gregmac 10y ago
> When you invest in a product or platform, do you not want to be able to evaluate whether it will be around in 3 years?
How do you judge based on that? Even Apple had a customer #1.
- friendzis 10y agoThere are fundamental differences between tangible products and services - change and company shutdown. Tangible goods are sold as-is, can be evaluated as such and remain functional even in the event of company shutdown (unless its heavily backend dependent). Services, on the other hand, are expected to receive improvements (and startup services are quite often sold with future improvement roadmap) and die with the parent company, possibly with all your data.
- beachstartup 10y agoand when google/apple/facebook buys your service and shuts your service down, where does this logic leave your customers? these heuristics are completely invalid in today's economy. sure they sound intuitive, but they're not. http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ in fact i could make a reasonable case that having brand name funding means you're more likely to NOT be around in 3 years