From: Ferren MacIntyre (Ferren.MacIntyre at domain nuigalway.ie)
Date: Thu 04 Oct 2001 - 10:53:05 IST
Quoth Kenn Humborg:
>Companies exist to make profit. Nothing more...
Believe it. Haring off as a high-tech start-up from academia, I attended a
Small Business class sponsored the US Dept. of Commerce. First question:
'Why do you want to do this?'. I had begun to organize my answer ('I see
an unfilled need and a way to fill it. We can write good software to do
this...') when I was interrupted by an MBA-type oaf at the back of the
room: 'TO MAKE MONEY!'.
'Right!' said the lecturer. 'If you have any other ideas on the subject,
you are in the wrong place.'
He was right.
--Ferren
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