Comments on: The start-up inflection point http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2006/the-start-up-inflection-point/ Management and Creative Thinking Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:19:08 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gaurav Agarwal http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2006/the-start-up-inflection-point/comment-page-1/#comment-27200 Gaurav Agarwal Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:58:50 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/?p=377#comment-27200 Hey this is indeed a great article. In India (atleast for the 3 startups that I have worked with) the story is slightly reversed, most of the startups begin by having 40-50% people in manegerial position. So these people are not programmers, they are the visionaries :). And believe that programmers can be hired/fired at will and that technology programming has become a menial job so they start off as managers and then scale up hiring programmers. This in turn creates a problem where the programmer is not in synch with the company's vision and the manager is not able to define the vision as required by a techie. Perhaps an interesting problem statement which you might like to review on this blog. Hey this is indeed a great article. In India (atleast for the 3 startups that I have worked with) the story is slightly reversed, most of the startups begin by having 40-50% people in manegerial position. So these people are not programmers, they are the visionaries :). And believe that programmers can be hired/fired at will and that technology programming has become a menial job so they start off as managers and then scale up hiring programmers. This in turn creates a problem where the programmer is not in synch with the company’s vision and the manager is not able to define the vision as required by a techie. Perhaps an interesting problem statement which you might like to review on this blog.

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]]> By: Scott (admin) http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2006/the-start-up-inflection-point/comment-page-1/#comment-22629 Scott (admin) Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:32:37 +0000 http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/?p=377#comment-22629 Paul: This is purely anecdotal, observation based opinion. I can't point you to data or research. I guess part of my gripe is how little is written about what happens in the transition from 20 people to 100. If you know of stuff, let me know. Though your question poses another: would programmer performance correlate well with revenue or traffic? I'm thinking of cases where programmers are doing amazing work that doesn't sell or doesn't become popular. I wouldn't say that the programmers underpeformed, though I would say that the start-up was a failure. Paul: This is purely anecdotal, observation based opinion. I can’t point you to data or research. I guess part of my gripe is how little is written about what happens in the transition from 20 people to 100. If you know of stuff, let me know.

Though your question poses another: would programmer performance correlate well with revenue or traffic? I’m thinking of cases where programmers are doing amazing work that doesn’t sell or doesn’t become popular. I wouldn’t say that the programmers underpeformed, though I would say that the start-up was a failure.

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