In a message dated 9/9/07 1:41:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Many good companies have been damaged or even destroyed by trying > (to grow too fast) > There are also problems associated with growth at any rate. The biggest > of these is that it generally forces you either to become a B2B > (business to business) company or a mass market company, neither of > which are compatible with supporting niche consumer products. It also > tends to result in extreme industrialisation of the support process, > i.e. the use of low skilled staff working from scripts. > The trick is to stay just big enough to do the job. > > > There's also the fact that the existing Elecraft product line isn't going > > away, and needs to be supported all through this time. > > However, if the company becomes too big, the venture capitalists' > management consultants will almost certainly insist that support for it > is dropped, as it is incompatible with the high volume, mass market > organisation that you need to be big. (That will also happen if the > company gets taken over.) > Which means keeping the company just big enough to do the job. Also, most small companies that succeed were founded by folks who have the right mix of business and product/design smarts. Too often, if a company grows too fast, the founders wind up leaving the product/design stuff to others because of the business demands. > Although the analogy isn't perfect, consider Apple, which was built on > the basis of Steve Wozniak's ability to play tricks with minimal > hardware, but he dropped out in favour of Steve Jobs when it got big, > and what one now has is essentially a fashion, rather than engineering, > based company. > Sure. But consider what has happened to PC hardware, particularly processors and RAM. The price has imploded while the performance has exploded. The need for machines that can do a lot with limited hardware is limited to special applications now. > Big companies can't compete with Elecraft because they are big companies! > > Exactly 73 de Jim, N2EY ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
