Comments on: Less is more != Feature is company http://almaer.com/blog/less-is-more-feature-is-company blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Peter Bell http://almaer.com/blog/less-is-more-feature-is-company/comment-page-1#comment-34366 Peter Bell Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:31:33 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/less-is-more-feature-is-company#comment-34366 Nothing wrong with building a feature at all. It's just the pharma model of outsourcing R&D. As an established software company, it is much cheaper to buy a Web 2.0 feature that is gaining traction for $5-$20MM than to create 20 features yourself and see if one of them flies. As a start up, it makes more sense to build a feature and sell it after 18 months than t have to hire an HR manager and recruit a sales team and develop policies and procedures and to register for sales tax in 50 jurisdictions and come up with transfer pricing strategies for your foreign subsidiaries and do all the fun stuff required to create an international software company. Win - win - win. Nothing wrong with building a feature at all. It’s just the pharma model of outsourcing R&D.

As an established software company, it is much cheaper to buy a Web 2.0 feature that is gaining traction for $5-$20MM than to create 20 features yourself and see if one of them flies.

As a start up, it makes more sense to build a feature and sell it after 18 months than t have to hire an HR manager and recruit a sales team and develop policies and procedures and to register for sales tax in 50 jurisdictions and come up with transfer pricing strategies for your foreign subsidiaries and do all the fun stuff required to create an international software company.

Win – win – win.

]]> By: Wayland Chan http://almaer.com/blog/less-is-more-feature-is-company/comment-page-1#comment-34365 Wayland Chan Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:12:37 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/less-is-more-feature-is-company#comment-34365 It's another example of how our society has detoriated to this attitude of "I want it and I want it now" mentality. Focusing on a feature as opposed to *the* product is the lazy, quick way out. It’s another example of how our society has detoriated to this attitude of “I want it and I want it now” mentality.

Focusing on a feature as opposed to *the* product is the lazy, quick way out.

]]> By: Bob Lee http://almaer.com/blog/less-is-more-feature-is-company/comment-page-1#comment-34364 Bob Lee Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:45:43 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/less-is-more-feature-is-company#comment-34364 FWIW, I said the same about Writely. Maybe I was right (in the sense that it's part of a bigger suite). :) FWIW, I said the same about Writely. Maybe I was right (in the sense that it’s part of a bigger suite). :)

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