Assuming they keep improving, yes. The one I tried (I responded to the other reply with some output, which was great) is as fast as the cloud ones and nearly as good.
I am of the firm belief the solopreneurship is the future, especially with the power of AI. I don't believe corporations of any type, from startup to tech giant have the interests of anyone but the majority shareholders in mind. Employees, customers, partners, all get the shaft. When money is involved, startups aren't product companies, they're financial instruments.
We used to use symlinks to enable atomic operations, too. e.g. under /var/www/ we'd have /var/www/webapp_1.0, and have a symlink /var/www/webapp pointing to it. When there was a new version, upload it to /var/www/webapp_1.1, and then to bring it live, just update the symlink. Need to roll back? Switch the symlink back.
Wouldn't that cause problems when someone would find the old version and corrupt the data with it? Or would only the current version be accessible from the outside?
"The first sales come from the loyal CISOs who work with the fund. Although it may be considered "small money", the jumps between the first stages of fundraising are the most difficult. “Until a ‘regular’ startup company reaches sales of $2-10 million it grinds itself to a pulp, but with Gili Ra'anan, this happens in the first year of sales. He creates a mechanism that is difficult to compete against because his companies immediately jump to a valuation of $100-200 million, raise more money, and then also have more resources to compete later,” a partner in an Israeli venture capital fund tells Calcalist. “With a seemingly small purchase of $100,000-$200,000, a CISO increases a startup's value by dozens of times.”"
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"I recruited a new CISO for a financial organization that I managed out of a desire to refresh the cyber defense system. I gave him a free hand because I trusted him and I see this position as a position of trust. Six months later, I noticed that, surprisingly, almost all of the new logos that the CISO introduced were portfolio companies of Cyberstarts [Of which Wiz is their most notable]," describes a former senior executive at a large financial institution in the U.S. "It's not that these were necessarily bad solutions, but that some of them were a very low priority for us or solved problems that were not particularly urgent. After I confronted the CISO on the subject, he admitted that he is on the list of advisers of Cyberstarts and receives a percentage of the funds from them. Shortly after this, he left the company and immediately upon the appointment of a new CISO, I asked him to inform me if he was contacted by Cyberstarts. Within a few weeks, he had already received an email from them with a description of their kind of 'loyalty program' that details exactly what he will receive the more he works with the fund."
I migrated from Quickbooks to Manager.io and haven't looked back. It keeps getting better and stronger, and is desktop based (free) with a cloud-based version as well (paid) and well supported: https://www.manager.io/
I wouldn't necessarily call growth-hacking / blitzscaling to capture customers at a loss network effects. More accurately it's about cornering the market or dominating market share. Network effects are more prominent for things like social media networks where the network value grows exponentially with scale. But not as much for a B2C or B2B solution where there's an identifiable or fixed number of customers and the rocket fueled competitor captures them all with unsustainable pricing.
Indeed. I'm not sure network effects is the main topic here, as you can use Linear perfectly fine when everyone else is using Jira, without missing out on anyrhing. Same applies to many B2B services.
Maybe I could see this argument being used for cross-company collaboration tools like Slack, Zoom, Miró. But even then it's weak.
As you say, cornering the market seems way more important.
Profitable startup works for founders, but it doesn't work for the venture capital industry.
But it's hard to be a profitable, bootstrapped startup when rocket fueled / venture-backed startups are too busy growth hacking and venture-funded blitzscaling to capture customers at low cost to the customer, only later to screw the customer when it comes time to either flip the company to a buyer in order to return those VC dollars, or to turn the screws on the customers and enshittify the product when blitzscaling is no longer feasible.
Personally, I prefer a bootstrapped, profitable startup in markets where blitzscaling venture-backed rockets aren't raiding the customers.
