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@tylertringas It takes 3 million dollars to open a McDonalds. 3 million dollars. Three MILLION dollars.
Do you know how much SaaS you can write with $3 million? It is a lot of SaaS.
Do you know how much SaaS you can write with $3 million? It is a lot of SaaS.
@tylertringas The United States has thriving ecosystems which ensure there is sufficient capital allocated to McDonalds, such that if a neighborhood would be well-served by having not-phenomenal burgers available at a low price point, it will get a McDonalds funded trivially.
@tylertringas The US does not have thriving ecosystems devoted to producing small software businesses, which can *very plausibly* create at least as much value in the world as an individual McDonalds location.
@tylertringas I'm glad that there are several teams working on solutions for this, and eagerly looking forward to reading about which experiments work.
@tylertringas One of the conversations I have a lot in Silicon Valley is "Could $10k do anything at the margin? Pfft, if you've been working at AppAmaGooBookSoft, that's tiddliwinks."
And I remember my budget for my first business was $60, and I had ~$2k in checking on day I went full-time.
And I remember my budget for my first business was $60, and I had ~$2k in checking on day I went full-time.
@tylertringas It feels to me like there are probably opportunities here, of the general shape "Wow it's freaking amazing that somebody went so far for so little at the margin; how did nobody see that before?"
