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  • ugo@feddit.ittoProgramming@programming.dev•How to start my own business?
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    3 days ago

    To expand on this: the better the collaboration between sales and programming, the better for everyone involved. I have no experience on starting businesses, but it feels to me that when starting or expanding a business, one often needs to sell products that don’t exist yet. Because building something in the hopes of selling it is very risky, as the product you develop might risk not being able to properly satisfy the needs of anyone and therefore could end up not selling.

    Selling something that doesn’t exist yet instead guarantees a sale and therefore funding, but sales and programming need to be aligned on the difficulty of creating said product (or adapting an existing one) and the timeline to do so.

    Few things cause a bigger sense of loss in programmers than being told “we sold this thing that needs to be ready in 2 months” when the programmer knows it needs 6 months to be built correctly. It’s a fantastic recipe to make programmers miserable, product managers miserable, clients miserable, and likely sales miserable too.