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If you're just building products and your end goal is making money, then Enterprise is the way to go. While innovation comes from both spaces, I feel like the
by joeblau 13y ago
If you're just building products and your end goal is making money, then Enterprise is the way to go. While innovation comes from both spaces, I feel like the consumer market has a better more realistic feedback cycle. In enterprise, it's usually a small group of people making large decision deals which impact a large group.
Salesforce is a great example of a company that's widely successfully and their products are critical in enterprise, but I've never personally heard an Enterprise consumer say "Oh I love the Salesforce software." By contrast, I've heard people rave about apps like Pinterest, Instagram and Snapchat even though none of them are profitable businesses.
For me, If I wanted to build a money making product, I would go enterprise, but I choose consumer because I want to make a great product--very rarely do I find great enterprise products.
- UVB-76 13y ago> Salesforce is a great example of a company that's widely successfully and their products are critical in enterprise, but I've never personally heard an Enterprise consumer say "Oh I love the Salesforce software." By contrast, I've heard people rave about apps like Pinterest, Instagram and Snapchat even though none of them are profitable businesses. I think there is a certain inevitability to these things when you compare software that people are required to use as part of their job, and software they choose to use in their spare time. It strikes me as a vicious cycle. People don't enjoy using enterprise software, so developers don't enjoy making it. The incentives are all wrong, the purchasing decisions are made by the wrong people, for the wrong reasons, and it's near impossible to avoid locking yourself into a particular solution or provider. Welcome to enterprise software.