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Unless you can get an insanely large price, licensing seems to make more sense since you won't lose control of the app. You can relicense, including to those br
by adjwilli 14y ago
Unless you can get an insanely large price, licensing seems to make more sense since you won't lose control of the app. You can relicense, including to those brick and mortar stores, and possibility hold out for a larger sum after initial success.
I would need to know more about your business to see how it fit your larger strategy, but turning internal tools into the core of the business has been a successful pivot point for others. The prime example the comes to mind is 37signals that went from a web-dev consultancy house to making productivity apps.
- NSAID 14y agoThanks for the response. Would licensing play out like the "lease" (maybe that's poor wording) I describe? We do have attorneys that would look over any agreements, but we need to know what option we're pursuing first. As far as our business plan, we've been successfully growing in ecommerce for years, and our retail staff outnumber our IT staff by a large margin. It's funny that you mention pivoting though - we've also been in talks with other small business about providing tech support or web design services. While I don't see us intentionally pivoting, we possibly could continue to organically grow out IT services.