>Getting contracts for development work with large customers can be difficult since most organizations already have preferred vendors for software development.

>Getting contracts for development work with large customers can be difficult since most organizations already have preferred vendors for software development. Developing features under a support model gives you no entitlement to the technology. And, if you’re good at what you do, you’ll eventually put yourself out of a job since customers can use it without help But there are a large number of outsourced software development companies, some of them publicly traded- Cognizant/Infosys/Wipro types, plus Accenture, plus the new generation of Eastern European ones like EPAM and Grid Dynamics. Government-y ones like CGI. Oldschool companies offering consultancies like EY/Deloitte, etc. Hovering in the background is Toptal, which is technically different but I would imagine the bulk of their revenue comes from enterprise outsourced dev contracts. All of these companies are making this business model work somehow? And there are lots of them too. So it can't be that bad of a way to make money (yes I understand that these are not VC-investable businesses)