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I'll echo your sentiments. I've done consulting and development for small businesses for nearly 3 decades now, and what I LOVE about dealing with small busines
by cyberferret 10y ago
I'll echo your sentiments.
I've done consulting and development for small businesses for nearly 3 decades now, and what I LOVE about dealing with small business owners and managers, is that they usually have great ideas and sophisticated models of things that they would like to implement. Stuff that I can get really excited about building for them.
What I hate about small business is the very small budget that they have to work with traditionally. I've had so many project that, for $50-60K would yield a killer solution that would revolutionise their business and (tick all that apply): [] make money [] save time [] increase productivity, but been only given something like a $10K budget...
- analog31 10y agoOne thing I've observed about very small businesses is that the owners are very tight with money because they perceive it as coming right out of their own pockets. They are direct stakeholders in the success or failure of any proposed project. In contrast, the managers at a larger business are betting somebody else's money, so they are not stakeholders at all. They know that the anticipated cost over-runs and under-performance will be absorbed by the larger business. So the manager at the big business is inclined to be optimistic about the project, and at the small business, pessimistic. I exhibit both of those personalities at once, since I work for a large business but run my own small side-business. The big business runs on SAP, the small one on Excel 2010. Another problem for the small business is that there is less of an obvious relationship between time, productivity, and actually making more money, due to the problem of scaling. Many businesses rise up to the volume that they can sustain without running into scaling obstacles.
- mxuribe 10y agoYou said it right!