What keeps you from beginning your Start Up?
mseebach: Have you ever made him do something in a specific way, because of "enterprise"-reasons, politics and "that's the way we do it" instead of arguments?Do you make him run windows, when he'd rather use a Mac or Linux, because he has to use Visual Studio? Did he ever suggest that you do a project in Ruby or Python, to be told that "we're a Java shop"?Do you have bureaucratic rules? Do you make him punch in and out, and log time down to the minute? Are certain websites blocked because they are not work-related?Is the working environment pleasant. Are you six developers and two PMs on cheap chairs and small tables, in a 300 sq ft office, with hard floors and no sound dampening?Is management not only a step up in salary and responsibility, but also access to unrelated perks like a better chair?But mostly, I think, it was the "talk the talk" about creative minds, and not walk a single step of the road, that made sick of that place.