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I may be mad, but I'm at a point where I would trust a self-funded slow-growth profitable startup waaaay more than Google to run a service in the long run. Dec
by Signez 8y ago
I may be mad, but I'm at a point where I would trust a self-funded slow-growth profitable startup waaaay more than Google to run a service in the long run.
Decades of "quickly started, even more quickly deprecated" services have taken their toll.
- marcinzm 8y agoSure Google can and does shut down products but they tend to give more than two weeks notice during the holidays.
- bfritton 8y agoAgreed
- nine_k 8y agoA company with a known working profit-making model is best, big or small. GitHub used to be like that. They started very humbly, rejected most investments, grew slowly, but eventually owned most of the market.
- jwr 8y agoI'm happy to hear that as a self-funded SaaS founder (https://partsbox.io/ https://partsbox.io/). This is exactly what I'm trying to tell my customers (some of which would rather see a large VC-funded operation): if you consider the probable exit paths for a VC-funded startup, very few are good for customers.