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The following sentence is very not true and quite misleading: > Similarly, you don’t work on great technology at a startup. .. They are about business model di
by sdizdar 16y ago
The following sentence is very not true and quite misleading:
> Similarly, you don’t work on great technology at a startup. .. They are about business model discovery...
If that is true, then why do technology startups exist at all? Isn't discovering business model very much connected to discovering new technologies (new, more efficient ways to solve problems)?
In other words, if a technology startup is not planning to invent something, then it not should probably exist in the first place.
It is true there are some Web 2.0 startups which are not about technology at all, but these startups are anyway not looking for great engineers.
- btilly 16y agoI emphatically disagree. At least for most "technology startups". Technology startups are just startups that require technology to operate. I've worked at some successful ones. And they really were about finding the right business model. We needed good technology people and there were fun technical problems. But really they were about finding business models that fully used the technology, and not about the technology itself. That said, there are some real technology startups. They look rather different. For instance I know employee #7 at SpaceX. There is no question that that company is really about the technology.