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I recently had a problem with one of my Jabra earbuds dying. They claimed it was no longer under warranty (even though their website promised a year or two under warranty and it had been only about 8 months). I eventually just gave up and got new earbuds. It pretty much destroyed my view of the company.

Isn’t that just a difference in shape? I think either way it’s the same amount of butter.

Worked on a startup doing something very similar--would recommend against it. As everyone else is saying, the sales process is incredibly long and most local governments just aren't used to buying SaaS. Local partners are important AND you'll need to be very good at sales: can't rely on marketing to bring in customers.

It's a hard business to bootstrap unless you have a large bank account to fall back upon for years while waiting for sales growth to kick in.

And the US as a whole is 500x the population of Vermont.

If you can find clients to hire you, anything is possible. I started freelancing during the Great Recession (because I couldn’t get a job) and was able to make it work.

Find at least one client before you quit, though. And make sure you have at least 6 months of savings so that even if that client fired you on day 1, you’d be okay.

As long as companies use CRM and ERP systems, enterprise software is going to stick around. That’s just a fundamentally different proposition than one team starting to use Slack or Twilio.

I generally avoid fake meat but plenty of people don't eat meat for religious or moral reasons. They might still want something meat-like, though, and fake meat provides that.

I started as a casual biker (using the London bike share on vacation there) and became a serious bike commuter. It’s a journey, not a simple division.

Just to add on to this advice: if you want to do an MBA (or really even if not), stay at Facebook for a few years. Otherwise, people will think you either can't hold down a job or just lack commitment. That's a bad image to have whether you're applying to graduate programs or starting a career.

I can tell you as someone in business school now, my resume has some similarities and it has definitely hurt me.

I’m part of a group trying to do something similar (buying an apartment building and then all living together there). From our early research, I think the biggest thing I can say is that you need systems in place at the beginning for resolving conflicts and ending things. (Don’t wait until you have an issue). Also, if people decide to go their own way, that’s okay as long as you had a good experience while living together.