Size vs. Quality – and Yes, it does matter

Posted: June 10th, 2009 | Author: Ivan Rečević | Filed under: Agena, root | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »
Some random big car in front of office

Some random big car in front of office

In the last days in the neighborhood where our office is situated, we notice some really big, really expensive cars.

For these guys, you can really say, size does matter.

We remembered one potential client, from the hood, with really, really BIG idea.

BIG idea

The idea was so huge, that involved serious transcoding – lasting months, storage space – that can be handled only by CDN, and bandwidth comparable to Amazon or Google pipeline.

Anyway, the idea was BIG (notice was), and can produce significant money if implemented properly with carefully calculated steps with serious Project Manager and hard core coders.

Calculation

The value of operational cost for first 6 months, just running the business was approximately as the value of the car he was driving.

This drove potential client away from us.

Wake up call

Now, I can just perceive the moment when wake up call came and potential client realized that start-up costs are expensive as his own car. Quality is expensive, which is true. Size is expensive too.

So, with the balance of size and quality you can start slowly and carefully build up your business, offline or online, using really smart people.