Not exact matches
Both the guy who sold a billion - dollars» worth of
software and the guy who sold ice cream took a risk and found customers who were willing to pay for their product, and both managed to sell enough of that product to pay their expenses and
keep the
business going.
In the case of Opsware, Horowitz says Campbell argued vehemently for
keeping the
software - development
business going as rivals closed theirs down during the dot - com crunch — and as his investors pressured him to sell it.
Besides the fact that custom
software typically costs big bucks, that vendor usually soon moved on, or
went out of
business, or got hit by a bus, leaving the client with a system that no one else knew how to update or even
keep running.