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References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208271607200.4236-100000@hydrogen.leitl.org>
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Subject: Re: Startups, Bubbles, and Unemployment (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:50:31 -0700
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> Ultimately, there was a big
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> disagreement about how to sell the product (sales guys wanted to sell
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> the thing for a gazillion dollars to megaclients, but we thought it
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> would make more sense to get more people using it so we could get more
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> feedback from many different places). The bottom line was that the
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> route we wound up going (megaclients for megabucks) had a megalong
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> sales cycle. The sales force staffed up and tried to sell the
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> earliest releases of the software -- even succeeding in a few
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> significant cases -- but couldn't get enough to cover their own
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> expenses, much less the actual development of the product.
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Now where have I seen that before.... oh yeah... its happening to me right
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now...
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