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Stability, sustainability, EU legislation compliance and taking care of your individual problems. If it goes well, the companies will grow with you and don't ou
by chromanoid 2y ago
Stability, sustainability, EU legislation compliance and taking care of your individual problems. If it goes well, the companies will grow with you and don't outgrow you.
I think there is a growing Digital Mittelstand in Germany already. I myself work for such a company. We have some strong VC-backed competition. So far the company, self-financed, fares quite well.
I think the author misses a plethora of B2B markets when coming up with examples. There Mittelstand can be a very stable, (if desired) regional long time partner.
- whstl 2y agoI have worked for a couple of those as well. Super interesting niche products, that were crucial for people's day to day work, sustainable work pace, always shipping interesting features every other week. A lot of focus on quality (the QA:Dev ratio was 1:1 in one of those for example). A lot different from the "we must rule the world or die" from regular startups outside Germany. Incidentally one of those companies I was in just died, after getting from 50-90 (when I was there) to 900 employees. I'm glad I left before the decline.