On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:41 PM, vlad <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting discussion. All the folks here are engineers. It is easy to > challenge status quo and throw out smart questions. Should you find yourself > responsible for investing millions of other people's money your perspective > changes drastically. We cannot relate to that mindset period. In that > mindset, driven purely by business considerations and risk minimization, > Beta label is a deal breaker.
Speak for yourself, amigo :-) While I may be an engineer, I've also been the CTO of a hundred-person dotcom, and I'm now bootstrapping my own startup. The dollars I have spent on this project represent a vastly larger percentage of my net worth than any VC has probably ever spent on a project. And I don't have a portfolio of projects; I can't afford to "lose a few". I have far more to lose on a bad technology choice than any VC does. The "risk minimization" of eschewing appengine for a build-it-yourself-platform is a false economy; it minimizes the tiny risk that Google will torch appengine and *greatly* increasing the risk that the product will never be viable in the first place. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
