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10 Considerations for the Startup planning to offer to the Enterprise (and why many will fail)
- far33d 19y ago5) Build a robust system that won't fail from heavy enterprise use, sadly, Twitter would never make it. Huh?
- noonespecial 19y agoTwitter failed spectacularly during macworld today. Specifically, right during SJ's keynote. Many people are fairly put out about it all.
- far33d 19y agoI know - I actually meant that a popular consumer app probably has way worse scaling issues than a white-label enterprise system would have.
- noonespecial 19y agoCheck out point #8 in his list. As the comments suggest, this ones a killer. It took us nearly 8 months and we had to do a few free trials before we got it done finally. It also took weaks just to negotiate all of the contract points. The upside? 3 year $1mil contract. They are hard but if you get them, the corporate contracts are sweet deals. The secret is to offer technology and more importanty attentiveness that they just can't get from a more off-the-shelf solution.