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Business error leads owner in new direction and success
- donaq 17y agoI was impressed by the part where the programmer called the potential customer's bluff and told him to bugger off, especially since they didn't have any other customers.
- gruseom 17y agoI almost didn't click on it because there are so many useless blog posts with this kind of title. But this is a great story! A fast-food restaurant owner ends up creating a valuable software company. And the programmer gets rich. Most people here would enjoy it.
- rrival 17y ago"We didn't have money. No venture capital. No outside investors. Just two guys with an idea. Without money there was a great discipline about how we spent money." right, except the 40k to dev it and 10 franchise outlets to keep it running =)
- menloparkbum 17y agoActually, it says he spent $600K to develop the software. Gala put more than $600,000 into the project, money earned at the restaurants, before the official launch of the company, Altametrics in Los Alamitos, or the inventory control product, eRestaurant, at a Long Beach trade show in October, 2000.
- jerryji 17y agoA truly inspirational and sensational story. When I was at the "trade show" part, I simply can't help thinking if things could have been easier for them had they read Steve Blank's (recent) Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters (http://steveblank.com/2009/05/21/trade-shows/ http://steveblank.com/2009/05/21/trade-shows/). Of course, I have to agree with rrival on the capital part.