Bnoopy: Keeping Innovation Alive - The Hackathon

>Bnoopy: Keeping Innovation Alive - The Hackathon
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> Startups have many disadvantages over established companies — they have fewer people, they have fewer customers and they have a whole lot less money. They are supposed to have two advantages — speed and innovation. But, do most startups really have either of those?
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> I know at the startups I’ve been involved with, because the company is short staffed and the company is trying to get customers in as many ways as possible that it’s very easy to squeeze innovation out of the system and instead get focused exclusively on customer-driven development. You go from a company with a lot of great ideas and big visions, to a company with a year-long roadmap and no real sense of “I-came-up-with-this-great-idea-which-I-built-over-the-weekend-and-look-how-cool-it-is”.

This is a real issue for us/me at the moment because I’m getting so bored and frustrated with some of the projects that we’re doing and so desperate to get on with some of the ones in the pipeline that its driving me nuts!