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> viable business A developer run and developer focused business could absolutely be a viable business. But it wouldn’t be the 10x hockey stick growth company
by afavour 3y ago
> viable business
A developer run and developer focused business could absolutely be a viable business. But it wouldn’t be the 10x hockey stick growth company venture capitalists demand and ultimately they hold the power here. So we get the inevitable.
- sethammons 3y agoWhere does the money come from? Customers don't magically appear. Any, and I mean _any_ example you can dream of, will require something more than just the product. Price, promotion, product, and distribution. You need all four.
- afavour 3y ago> Where does the money come from? You realise that businesses are successfully formed without venture capital, right? I’m not saying “create a business and ignore the entire concept of marketing”. I’m saying that you can create a small business with a tight focus and it can be a success, a great success even, without the necessity of scaling to the level VC investments usually require you to.
- sethammons 3y agoI agree. I misread and thought you were saying a product is enough, which is obv. not the case. You need all four things I mentioned.
- quickthrower2 3y agoYou can sort of get it in the post-unicorns: see AWS, Microsoft. Smaller examples, Digital Ocean, Hashicorp. They are certainly dev focused, and probably dev run to a high enough level (but not the top). They wont always do things you like/agree with as a dev, but that is different to not being dev focused.