Re: The Joy of *small* business

On 2024-12-14, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Did you grow it into a big business? How did the experience change from
the start to where you are now?

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Lars Poulsen wrote:

Growing big was never a goal.
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From the beginning, the goal was to do something that would fill our
days and feed our families. We have mostly stayed at a headcount of 4.
My tagline is "4 guys in a garage".
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5 years ago or so, we looked at the feasibility of "cashing out", but
realized that the value of the company is the knowledge base of the two
of us, so we are stuck with each other until we wind it up, which we he
started to do. We have offered a "last time buy" to our major customers,
and expect to be done in two years or so.

In retrospect, my company is very much like one of my first jobs in
Copenhagen. Two sales engineers had started a boutique shop for custom
interfacing. Importing some lab equipment and building custom interfaces
for PDP-8 and PDP-11 systems. 4 people in a 3rd-floor apartment in the
City.

I have worked for companies of varying sizes, but always been more
satisfied in small groups.