Good Investors, Other People's Money and Cyry

Recently, a lot of talk, write and discuss about the investors and investing in IT. At the hearing of all the transaction Softkey and IBS, and Andrey Zotov on ITBlogs TV Elashkin gave Michael a great interview and provoked all of the following considerations. Of course, because when you see how business leaders are doing something, quite naturally want to ... Just mainstream?.

But is not there a collective effect of the queue ( time it takes, then I 'll stand, suddenly come in handy ), other people's money ( in debt you take someone else's, and to return. not?! ) and free lunch ( where known )?.

Departing from the beautiful literary comparisons, we will ask a simple question - Is the only way to develop an IT company is to find an investor in a particular way? . uh, Nirvana.

Kind of a dog, I think, is buried in the obvious, and therefore do not often mention the fact that companies are not equal to men in the companies. Companies in general have been invented in England ( if I get them mixed up ) to entrepreneurs in the event of bankruptcy does not put in debtors' prison, and bankrupted their companies.

The downside of this exclusion is that the founder of the company and the more its employees can not only see the final - specific monetary and material favorable results from the investment and, conversely, get an extra amount of work, a lot of challenges and m. Dr.. and m. n. To justify the high confidence of the investor and his money. The question is whether this new load is proportional to the benefits received.

Roughly speaking, an investor is considering buying the company is not in the sense of transmission of packets of banknotes in exchange for prints and documents, but in the sense of this area of work practices particularly deep drilling. Moreover, IT companies, particularly those with a narrow specialization, connectivity is a major problem of the production process with people who are difficult to scale for deep drilling.

Or a company in which the sale to the public sector, for example, are built on good personal relationships (well, sitting together at a desk with a major customer. or just sitting ).

Therefore, usually an IT company is bought with the key people and the team. And one thing if the team participates in the ... e. learning and adaptation of new people, documenting new ( or old) business processes.

Of course, all this can be arranged, string up to the owner, organizer of the sold business, to motivate managers and programmers, even ( if the business is highly dependent on technology ), but the question is - is just a better way?.

Since ancient times, in all the books on consulting is an example of what a certain company conducted a survey of their organizational processes, and without the implementation of CRM, etc. Dr.. immediately improved their performance! .

So - does not it happen that applying the same energy that you need to apply in the case of investment, we can achieve the best ( and, importantly, used alone ) results? .

In other words, investors are not for everyone. Moreover, investors say it yourself - we say, not all take, why there is a sense that they take the best, and we, well, born yesterday? .

Yes, and sold in whole or in part. As it is not our way, eh? .