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by BossingAround 883 days ago
Ah that makes more sense, I can't read. I thought that the project stopped working all together, hence the startup was finished. I didn't realize it meant that they simply lost enough customers to go under.
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A company's source code is mostly valueless. A company's customer data is priceless.

As Fred Brooks said in Mythical Man-Month: Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.