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It has never ever been a bad strategy to get paid to build a product rather than building something and hoping there’s a market.

This is the way to do enterprise sales.



Right. My point is more about misleading presentation. The landing page will try to convince you the company is offering an amazing product that will solve your problems, when the reality is, the product doesn't exist and the company is trying to get you to fund it.


It's funny you bring this up because a startup i was involved in at the beginning did something similar. I was one of the seniors and we would have proposed "ideas" for what could be done with the product. The next day the sales people were selling those features .. unfortunately it created a huge divide between sales and development that ultimately couldn't be overcome.

I understand the insentive is to sell, but there has to be a balancing line between sales and development, both can't work solely independent.




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