If you go lean, revenue is everything. You start with something small, you fight to get every single customer, you grow with every project, staffing up another developer or sysops engineer paid from your own pocket to do a bigger project than the past one, trying to get your "side-product" ready to not be dependent of more projects at some point...
And then, you've the Double Stealth. Why bother with revenues, if VCs are throwing money at you? Why bother with customers at all? Why bother with products? Hell, why not just completely hiding what we do, as long as the money is flowing? Problem? :D
i kind of understand your point. the problem i see is that it might make you think you're doing something amazing while not receiving and adapting to customer feedback.
so in the end it's very linkely to build something that people don't care about or don't need.
this would be perfectly fine if you'd use your own money. but your investors invest in you because they want their money back plus profits.
so, you're right. now you're fine. but when the money or money or both are gone you get into trouble if there's no revenue and profit.
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If you go lean, revenue is everything. You start with something small, you fight to get every single customer, you grow with every project, staffing up another developer or sysops engineer paid from your own pocket to do a bigger project than the past one, trying to get your "side-product" ready to not be dependent of more projects at some point...
And then, you've the Double Stealth. Why bother with revenues, if VCs are throwing money at you? Why bother with customers at all? Why bother with products? Hell, why not just completely hiding what we do, as long as the money is flowing? Problem? :D
i kind of understand your point. the problem i see is that it might make you think you're doing something amazing while not receiving and adapting to customer feedback.
so in the end it's very linkely to build something that people don't care about or don't need.
this would be perfectly fine if you'd use your own money. but your investors invest in you because they want their money back plus profits.
so, you're right. now you're fine. but when the money or money or both are gone you get into trouble if there's no revenue and profit.
good luck!