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What kind of light-bulb-changer are you?
From Dharmesh Shah, How Many Startup Employees Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
I feel torn between this (especially when I am volunteering someone else at the keyboard):
Developer Type: Well, it should only take one, but our founder insisted on using Python instead of Ruby On Rails to build the product and so it’s going to take four people to add the “change a light bulb” feature. Wait, wait, I found this new open source project called “Python on Prayers” which lets the two environments interoperate. I think I can bang out the code this weekend. You go now. (starts typing away at keyboard).
and, sadly, this:
Strategy Type: Forget the light bulb. We need to stop skating to where the puck is, and skate to where the puck is going to be. In five years, there will be no light bulbs to change. I’m going on an executive retreat next week and plan to return with a vision statement that articulates how we will leverage our core competencies to erect a formidable barrier to entry in the $1 billion market for LaaS (Light As A Service).
Good stuff. Mr. Shah brings the funny.