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[peter]

On jude77 said

This thread made for a fascinating read in that we were able to see a bit “behind the curtain” of the software development world.  I feel sort of like I walked in the Library of congress and somebody handed me the complete JFK file.  I wish Cinesamples the best, and all other small developers as well.  It looks to me that starting and maintaining a small software company takes a pair of brass ones.

I did spend some time as a Fortune 200 business strategy director, assessing acquisition targets and doing strategy planning. It definitely impacts how I assess companies, even small developers, even when I’m not trying to do it. I suppose it’s kind of like when you’ve had music training and you hear a song’s chorus go up a step or something, how you automatically analyze that whether or not you’re trying. It is basically a little of what you do when you’re doing a competitive analysis. With these small developers, we have no idea of what kind of financial shape they’re in. The best we can do is guess based on any personal and strategy changes that reflect a company in trouble. Cinesamples has had a lot of those signs in the past couple of years. But everything Chris Hayzel stated in his posts adds up — it all fits, and he was refreshingly open. That doesn’t mean I think that Cinesamples / Musio is necessarily an incredibly stable company, but I do think it has a decent shot and being successful and I do think it’s worth supporting.

I’ll also share this — there are some things I know that I cannot share about the company from the recent past — that were signs that I found reflected a company in serious trouble. But everything Chris stated reflected an acknowledgement that they had some serious problems and survived them and are now doing incredibly better.

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