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0 pointsnamdnay5y ago0 comments

No again you’re mixing two markets. Just because a SaaS startup sells solutions to big companies, doesn’t make that the same thing as custom IT projects

Enteprise but Startupy: MS Teams

Not startupy: BMW need a solution to track how many defective gearboxes are detected every month, sorted by supplier, model and assembly site, data fed in from the various factory control networks, verified weekly by each quality responsible on an intranet and sent monthly to top mgmt.

What I’m saying is that the second type of project represents more than 90% of the software being coded out there today.

A startup by its very definition (or at least PG’s definition) does not operate in this space , because it’s not exponentially scalable

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wpietri5y ago

I would be interested to see your data for that 90%.

Even if correct, I also don't think your point invalidates mine. I have done contract work for small companies that build "second type" code for large companies. One doesn't need Jira for that. As I said, one needs good client relations, but that can certainly be accomplished without a lot of top-down mangerialist claptrap. Indeed, it's my experience that things are better that way. They don't need metrics. They need their problems solved. Those two sometimes go together, but they're quite often opposed.

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