MeyerBros

(or Blue Heron Web Development, as Eric recently suggested on the wiki page. I like it.)

Business2.0 can tell us How To Build a BulletProof StartUp. To begin, all we’ll need is a T-1 line, 20 employees, and several million dollars in venture capital to burn through. Apparently we shouldn’t expect to break even until we’ve thrown $20 million down the tubes…

But before you waste precious hours of your life reading through their crap, let 37signals’ David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails) tear it all apart. Much more entertaining, and way better advice. Hansson concludes:

People often ask us “what should I do to build a company like 37signals?”. I think we finally have a succinct answer now: Do exactly the opposite of what Business 2.0 tells you to.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 25th, 2006 at 6:28 pm by carl and is filed under web design, startup. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.