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A good team that ships product is still extremely valuable, even if it had no product-market fit. If you can aquihire them and put them to work on new ideas, it
by deegles 8y ago
A good team that ships product is still extremely valuable, even if it had no product-market fit. If you can aquihire them and put them to work on new ideas, it's still much less risk vs. having to bootstrap a team from scratch.
- maxxxxx 8y agoVery true. I just think it hurts innovation. In today's environment IBM may just have bought Apple and Microsoft and closed them down.
- nojvek 8y agoTrue, startups that go for long haul are very brave. However doing something for a couple of years and getting a big win can’t be discounted. May be those people really hate working on the startup and all they want is a big fat exit. That is reasonable.