On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Nick Seraphin wrote: > Ask for engineering help and the engineering people will tell you to > increase your engineering budget. > > Ask for marketing help and the marketing people will tell you to > increase your marketing budget. > > Ask for support department/call center help and they will tell you to > increase your support department/call center budget. > > Meanwhile you now need $40 million in venture capital to start a > business "the right way"... when most new small businesses start with > less than $50,000 available. > > So is the answer "don't start a business if you don't have $40 million > available to do it RIGHT"? I doubt many people on this list would find > that satisfying. Incorrect. Don't start the business unless you either can *afford* to do it right, or unless you already *know* how to do it right.
If you don't understand the business, *and* you don't understand the technology *and* and you don't have cash to hire people who do...You are up for a failure. The whole american enterpreneurship is about substituting clue for cash. Problem is, asterisk-biz startups lack clue, *and* they lack cash. > Most small businesses take a leap of faith with a small budget and fly > by the seat of their pants... they have to wing it in the beginning... > making mistakes as they go along... maybe even pissing off a few > customers because of incompetance... because that's the only way they > can do it without pissing away huge amounts of money they don't have. > > *ANYONE* can start up a new company and make it work with $40 million in > capital. It takes a true entrepreneur that can take out a second > mortgage on his house and turn it into a thriving business 5 years later > with a lot of sweat equity. Second mortgage = cash sweat equity = clue clue + cash = business Nothing wrong with what you described above. -alex _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
