Tuesday, September 15, 2020

For beginner programmers - Don't get bogged down in a startup

If you yourself conceived a startup, then this topic is not for you.

You will definitely succeed, because statistics say that several percent of startups will exist for more than several years, and of course your startup is among these percent. Because your project is special, aimed at a free niche, hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for this, and venture capital funds do not know what to do with non-working money, etc.

I believe you.

An article for those who were invited to implement someone's startup.

There are already many articles about Western startups, but I want to tell you about the specifics of CIS startups.

I'll start with the definition - a startup is the idea of ​​one or more people how to quickly become famous and rich . Much less often it is the idea to change, turn, make the world happy.

This is exactly how a startup should be evaluated by an ordinary hired performer.

Once again: computer hardware engineers jobs

If you are hired, you must be clearly aware that you will realize or someone's delirium "invest in MMM", "hit the jackpot", "fool online casinos" and "then live in Goa for interest", or someone's mission. In the second case, the creators of the startup themselves are ready to live in the basement for several years, go towards the goal and achieve it. But in this case, you will have to live in the basement with them. And of course - to work just as much as they do.

Not, of course, a type 1 startup will tell you that he is planning to occupy a niche for growing strawberries in the tundra. After all, no one thought of it, but he knows how. But  your task, the hired one, is to think for yourself as an entrepreneur - what are the prospects for this brilliant idea?

If you work in a company where a start-up project has entered, then let the salespeople have a headache that they brought him, and the managers.

How do you immediately assess what to look at so as not to get caught up in a startup?

Let's start with finished startups.

On freelance exchanges, their authors write something like this:

There is a project that is 90% complete. The previous programmers turned out to be bastards and, having received another payment, disappeared.

Or, the same thing!

The previous programmers were high-level professionals and were lured by high pay to another project.

I emphasize - these phrases contain the same homely truth: the programmers are gone. The details - why - are not important. It is important - they do not leave a good (interesting, promising, monetary, ...) project.

followed by -

need a high-class programmer to complete the project. Payment only after the delivery of tasks! No advances or prepayments.

I will decipher - past programmers are bastards (even if they were declared high-level professionals), and therefore you - who will undertake to finish the job - are unqualified bastards! + it is possible that he no longer has money, those were the last ones that he secretly removed from the card from his wife, and therefore, since the programmer Vanya threw him, he simply has to throw the programmer Petya.

And now about early recognition.

The startup that conceived has never been a businessman. Or was, and maybe more than once, but for some reason burned out. That is, it is far from not only the specifics of IT projects, but from understanding any projects. This means that he does not have the skills to achieve project goals, taking into account the limitations in resources (if they did not know, resources are always limited. Everyone has. Jobs also always had limited resources). This means that there will be no TK, but the wishlist will change all the way, and all the way he will get a thrill from what he has a violent imagination, in contrast to the orphaned and poor people around, and from how programmers work at his behest.

He saved money for his startup from his paycheck. This means that for every rupee, when the costs of the project exceed half, he will start to get cowardly. In the beginning, he will be a resorts who waste money. After all, he could use this money to buy something for himself, for the family, but the programmers eat it up, and the dream somehow pushes back. “It should be the other way around! - the startup will growl at the programmers, - If I left point A in the direction of point B, then the more gasoline I burned, the closer I should be to point B! "

If a startup is a businessman, albeit from a small business, can get into the funds of his company, say, deprive his staff of the promised bonus, then the one who has saved up has no such opportunity. And the closer to completion, the more he will expect from each tugrik spent. And in IT projects - often the opposite is true - it's easy to start, in the middle - it's nice to wiggle your brains - and at the end - laying tiles in the bathroom in one apartment leads to burnout of the wiring in the entire high-rise building. and at whose expense to change it?

A startup who has conceived dreams of NOT working. Here is to immediately - NOT work. He has already earned a stash, for which he decided to buy a carefree future! “Well, I bought a ticket, sat down here, and I'm waiting for a kin with a happy ending! I also have to pay for popcorn ??? "

He is determined that the project will be done by someone, and after the launch, the project will live on its own, and at first it will bring a pretty penny, and then, over time, it will grow by itself to generate profits more than his current salary by an order of magnitude. Therefore - to interrogate from him even to look, to test the implementation of the next Wishlist - you will not be interrogated. 

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