Remember: You can't please HN crowd.
Ideal corporation according to HN commenters:
1) Moderately successful, but not too successful (my Foo can't compete with Bar)
2) Run by at most 20 people (why do they need so many people, me and my buddy could do it in a week!)
3) Maintains all products/features indefinitely even if less then 1% of the users use it (Google killed RSS Reader)
4) Directs all earnings back into the product (they have so much money, surely they can afford to all maintain all products/features indefinitely)
5) Pays below market rates (engineers make too much money)
6) Grows organically with no VC/investor money
7) Makes no mistakes. All experiments end up being total hits / cash cows forever.
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Ideal corporation according to HN commenters:
1) Moderately successful, but not too successful (my Foo can't compete with Bar)
2) Run by at most 20 people (why do they need so many people, me and my buddy could do it in a week!)
3) Maintains all products/features indefinitely even if less then 1% of the users use it (Google killed RSS Reader)
4) Directs all earnings back into the product (they have so much money, surely they can afford to all maintain all products/features indefinitely)
5) Pays below market rates (engineers make too much money)
6) Grows organically with no VC/investor money
7) Makes no mistakes. All experiments end up being total hits / cash cows forever.
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