Is this possible?
9 months ago
One day I got a call from my friend who owned his own small software consulting firm. He had just got a project from one of his old friends, but he didn't have anyone available to do the work so he asked if I wanted to do some consulting work for about a month at his friend's new startup. I said sure as I needed the money. When I got to the company, they had about 4 people. It was 1 developer, a project manager, the ceo, and a book keeper. My job was to test out whether or not the project was even possible. They had a huge client willing to commit to testing, VCs were handing them money, yet they weren't sure if the product they wanted to build was even technically possible or worth it. I was only there for a month and as I was leaving, they started to ramp up on hires, but I thought it was really funny that all these people were giving them tons of VC money, yet they didn't know if it could even be built. Fast forward 2 years later, I have asked my friend who is still doing consulting work for them about the status of the company. I'm told they still don't have a completed product, there is still that huge client waiting to test out the beta software, they have expanded to about 50 people, and they have received even more funding, but the product is still not close to ready.
One day I got a call from my friend who owned his own small software consulting firm. He had just got a project from one of his old friends, but he didn't have anyone available to do the work so he asked if I wanted to do some consulting work for about a month at his friend's new startup. I said sure as I needed the money. When I got to the company, they had about 4 people. It was 1 developer, a project manager, the ceo, and a book keeper. My job was to test out whether or not the project was even possible. They had a huge client willing to commit to testing, VCs were handing them money, yet they weren't sure if the product they wanted to build was even technically possible or worth it. I was only there for a month and as I was leaving, they started to ramp up on hires, but I thought it was really funny that all these people were giving them tons of VC money, yet they didn't know if it could even be built. Fast forward 2 years later, I have asked my friend who is still doing consulting work for them about the status of the company. I'm told they still don't have a completed product, there is still that huge client waiting to test out the beta software, they have expanded to about 50 people, and they have received even more funding, but the product is still not close to ready.