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I do a lot of Enterprise Startup evaluation for the company I work for. I read hacker news regularly, but consider it entirely separate from my job. I don't see
by AndyNemmity 13y ago
I do a lot of Enterprise Startup evaluation for the company I work for. I read hacker news regularly, but consider it entirely separate from my job. I don't see much about Enterprise at all through YC or discussed here.
Perhaps it's just me, but I find it odd that I share so much in common with my job evaluation and hackernews as a concept, and yet I consider reading and viewing here a personal activity that has no relevance to my work.
I think that has something to do with Enterprise startups not being considered sexy, or on the radar of most people.
Perhaps it's that people who are most likely to build startups through YC are people who haven't been in Enterprises for years, and thus don't have visibility to the needs or considerations.
If I were creating a startup today, I'd target the Enterprise sector because there are needs that aren't filled, and being bought by a large company is a quite reasonable exit strategy.
Selling it to Enterprise can be expensive, but you only really need a few successful hits as opposed to generating a massive hockey stick of users.
- mathattack 13y agoIt's also that many enterprises are afraid of startups. There are rational reasons for both organizational and personal risk aversion at large firms.
- capkutay 13y agoI see enterprise discussed on HN when its related to scalable infrastructures or NoSQL databases. However, it'll only be 'sexy' ones like open source solutions, something amazon built, or something ex-facebook/ex-googlers came out with.