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my sentiments exactly jamongkad. I think the key verbiage in the article is "and has done marketing campaigns for other companies like....." If you write a gr
by peanutcruncher 18y ago
my sentiments exactly jamongkad.
I think the key verbiage in the article is "and has done marketing campaigns for other companies like....."
If you write a great app then you wrote a great app and if you're lucky you might talk some funding source into paying or lending you $50k for it. If you hire a bunch of great marketing people and give them a crummy app they go out and get some funding source to fork out $35 million for some form of ownership right.
This fact of life has to be the greatest frustration there is in being an accomplished developer.
- jamongkad 18y agoI mean $35 mil could have been easily distributed amongst the little startups that are actually doing something of value. But that's VC's for yah.
- mxh 18y agoBut doesn't this "fact of life" just mean that developers should spend some time learning to market? Not getting great at it, but at least competent?