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This might provoke strong responses from hacker / programmer crowd, but... Relatively speaking, building a small team of capable engineers is much easier than
by kjksf 7y ago
This might provoke strong responses from hacker / programmer crowd, but...
Relatively speaking, building a small team of capable engineers is much easier than getting a business, especially in a competitive space like TODO lists, to 13+ million users (their numbers in 2015 at the time of Microsoft acquisition).
- jchw 7y agoI don’t know why this should be controversial. Plenty of good products fail and shoddy ones succeed. It’s clear engineering merit is not the primary factor in success.
- o-__-o 7y agoI find the complete 180 to be true. Very easy to get a business into a competitive space, but it’s hard to build a capable team of engineers. If you have both money and a solid idea to generating revenue (business plan) then you have solved both problems easily, relatively speaking. Engineers come together with the universal language.. money. Something startups don’t have.
- nvrspyx 7y agoThey said getting a business to 13million+ users, not getting a business into a competitive space alone. The point is the users are where the money is and getting to that many users is the most difficult part, neither gathering a group of engineers nor entering a competitive space.
- o-__-o 7y agoLike Lyft? Throw money at customers and they come flocking. Same with engineers. It’s making that model profitable that’s the hard spot