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Do you ever plan on being involved in the business side of a transaction for a b2b business? If so, yes you NEED to... if not you can probably get away not doi
by swalsh 13y ago
Do you ever plan on being involved in the business side of a transaction for a b2b business? If so, yes you NEED to... if not you can probably get away not doing it.
- teh_klev 13y agoI agree. I worked for a time in banking IT & development at two large UK banks - both as a full timer and as a hired gun from a consultancy. I never wanted to but it happened out of necessity/luck. It was pretty dull work. That said I got a valuable insight into how these huge organisations operate, what makes them tick and how to communicate with them. I now work for a small web hoster that focuses on hosting for businesses (SME and corp) and have done for a few years. The eighteen or so months on the banking gigs (despite being dreary times) taught me a lot of non-technical skills that allow me in my current day job to deal with and onboard some customers that are fairly large organisations. Unless you know how to communicate with large organisations, and often on their terms and with their sorts of business protocols, then the chances of your startup or small company landing a nice steady earner/gravy train from BigCorp are minimal. The only way to do this is to go and spend ~18 months on corp gigs - either as a full time employee or contractor. I wish I'd done it earlier in my career.
- mikeash 13y agoWe seem to once again be visiting a weird alternate universe, where the only way to succeed is to either work for a big company directly, or work for a small company that works for a big company.