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Almost all software nowadays involves some back-end with 24/7/365 availability, which means that unplanned outages can occur at any time. It sucks, especially for small or one-person operations, but it's the game many of us are in.
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Pi comes from logic, not nature.
This is a bit like when you're trying to ask your kid what the area of the triangle is, and the kid tells you you've drawn the lines bent, or the corners aren't sharp. It's actually not terribly easy to explain to them that they're supposed to understand the idealized entity, and what exactly those ideals are, because you also can't actually draw a triangle with no width and then expect them to appreciate that the qualities you want to expose are somehow exposed when you're breaking your own rules.
What if logic is different in different universes? Logic is universal... but is it multiversal?
Here’s a tell tale sign that you have product market fit - your product is buggy and sucks and your customers constantly complain and demand more improvement but they can’t give you up. They need to pay you because you serve a need they can’t or wont find somewhere else.
The customer needs a bespoke feature that really only they will use and isn’t general to anyone else? Is the founder team disciplined enough to say no and focus on what really adds value? Sure, they would love for you to be a cheap outsourced dev shop, but that’s why your CEO needs to push back and sell the vision of the company.
Phases 1, 2 and 3 are backwards. Why is the startup trying to be a consulting company? This doesn’t sound like the story of any visionary startup I know of. It sounds like a group of developers who can make a profitable software consulting company trying to pivot to making a product. IMHO a startup can be really dysfunctional in its dev process and management and still succeed, if they find product market fit first.
Why does a successful software business need to be a "visionary startup"? Taking on consulting work and discovering the product by listening to customers seems like a reasonable approach.
WTF? No.
If an employee expects to do something interesting or profitable with a personal project, then it's a "no", but it's not a WTF.
EDITED TO ADD: This is why we need laws that protect personal projects and make it impossible for companies to demand this. But in the absence of such restrictions on companies, they're going to set themselves up to win in any kind of dispute. It is not a WTF.
But modern multiplexes have changed that etiquette, and it's hard for me to stand it. And the advertisements...
Historically in US movie theaters, there's so much popcorn grease and spilled soda on the floor that your shoes actually get stuck to it while you're watching the movie.
EDIT: Wow downvotes? It's true! Maybe they mop them now but back when Diller was in the movie business, your shoes actually did get stuck to the floor because of all the spilled snacks. I haven't been to a movie theater in many years, but the grime was an essential part of the experience. Someone should open a throwback 80s theater.
The summary mentions "scroll[ing] their LinkedIn connections", but relying too heavily on this sort of thing puts people with no connections at a disadvantage, and actually makes it more difficult for a cohort trying to address a diversity problem to do so.