[freshflowers]

Please make sure it's something your team can actually get behind, and be very careful about how you put it. Because for experienced developers, any sign of pivoting to consulting is a sign to run for the exit. That's explicitly not what they signed up for when they took a chance on a start-up. Many will rather help out by cleaning the toilets than to fundamentally change the nature of their work.

It's kinda shocking that PG omitted that part, because I've seen it happen several times.

(Read michealochurch's comment further down on this page, he pretty much nails it.)

[ghobbins]

I think you make a good point. We need to make sure the whole company is on board. PG's comment on using consulting to find the product you want to build long term feels applicable here. Of course, the slippery slope remains. But if we can make money while finding those "narrow openings that have wide vistas beyond"