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> Using throwaway so customers don't find this comment. Not sure about your customers, but if I was a customer of some product I'd be happy to know they're are

by zerr 10y ago

> Using throwaway so customers don't find this comment. Not sure about your customers, but if I was a customer of some product I'd be happy to know they're are doing well :)

Mz 10y ago
He is doing B2B sales. It is wise to hide his small size from companies he sells to. I have seen countless stories that large companies act like bullies and take advantage of small companies on a routine basis. That may not be what he was thinking. But it is in his own best interest.
yuhong 10y ago
Yea, I'd really like to know why too. Notice the majority of comments on this thread don't do this.
danieltillett 10y ago
I think it is more the fact that he is a single founder (and one man band by the sounds of it) that s/he wants to hide. Business customers are not happy to buy from a business with a single person risk. Personally in this market having a business run by a single person is probably these risky than a small team since the chance of bankruptcy is less.
throwaway58182 10y ago
Our competitors are 10 - 1000 times larger than us. Doesn't help us in any way for them to know our size. And the couple of customers that know our size have indicated it's better to appear large. For example, you wouldn't switch a company from using Microsoft Exchange to something else if that something else was run by a couple of guys. Our company would be in very deep trouble if something happened to me. To balance that, customers get updates and fixes very fast because they work with such a small company.
- yuhong 10y ago
  I guess there are probably several issues involved, including the "no one got fired for buying IBM" problem.
- hefty 10y ago
  > Doesn't help us in any way for them to know our size. I'm curious as to what you tell a potential customer if they just ask you directly how big your company is? "It's mostly just me..."? Do you just hope that they don't ask that question?

by zerr 10y ago

> Using throwaway so customers don't find this comment. Not sure about your customers, but if I was a customer of some product I'd be happy to know they're are doing well :)

Mz 10y ago

He is doing B2B sales. It is wise to hide his small size from companies he sells to. I have seen countless stories that large companies act like bullies and take advantage of small companies on a routine basis. That may not be what he was thinking. But it is in his own best interest.

yuhong 10y ago

Yea, I'd really like to know why too. Notice the majority of comments on this thread don't do this.

danieltillett 10y ago

I think it is more the fact that he is a single founder (and one man band by the sounds of it) that s/he wants to hide. Business customers are not happy to buy from a business with a single person risk. Personally in this market having a business run by a single person is probably these risky than a small team since the chance of bankruptcy is less.

throwaway58182 10y ago

Our competitors are 10 - 1000 times larger than us. Doesn't help us in any way for them to know our size. And the couple of customers that know our size have indicated it's better to appear large. For example, you wouldn't switch a company from using Microsoft Exchange to something else if that something else was run by a couple of guys. Our company would be in very deep trouble if something happened to me. To balance that, customers get updates and fixes very fast because they work with such a small company.

yuhong 10y ago
I guess there are probably several issues involved, including the "no one got fired for buying IBM" problem.
hefty 10y ago
> Doesn't help us in any way for them to know our size. I'm curious as to what you tell a potential customer if they just ask you directly how big your company is? "It's mostly just me..."? Do you just hope that they don't ask that question?