[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Would-be IT industry barons were given some sobering news last
week: building an IT company is hard work.“‘You go into a business very bright-eyed and optimistic,’ says
Chris Hegan, ‘but one rule you can count on: it’s going to get
rougher than you could possibly imagine.“‘You have got to be prepared for it.’
“Hegan and Igor Portugal, co-founders of Linux vendor Asterisk,
gave a ‘warts and all’ description of building a business with open
source software to an audience in Auckland last week…”