[ciropantera]

Yes, I've been in this situation too. What at a first glance might look like the best of both worlds - low bureaucracy and solid funding - turns out to be the worst of both worlds: all of the bureaucracy of the mother company plus the risk of the whole project getting the axe every quarter because it doesn't make any profits

[lamontcg]

I've watched that happen at companies and seen the "startup" fling servers out in front of the firewall that got hacked in minutes due to default root passwords because part of the deal was completely bypassing all of the rigid bureaucratic internal IT controls.