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Relocating an Entire Software Engineering Team?
An anonymous reader asks: "I was recently laid off, along with the entire Vancouver Development Centre, from a large network security company. The software engineering team at our office has performed well and is highly cohesive. I was wondering if anyone at Slashdot has been in a similar situation and the probability/prospects of being able to start a new venture with the existing team. I'm sure most understand the importance of a good team, and the time it takes to grow one. Is it worthwhile for the core team to pursue a new venture or should we all just disband and go our separate ways? Where might we find someone with the entrepreneurial mindset to take advantage of this great resource?"
Take a Trireme and sail off to a new island. Take a settler. Press B and start out new.
Disband only if youre in a Democracy and the unit is weighing you down, or if its a very old unit.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
If there is you're pretty well (insert explicative). On the other hand, if there is not one I'suggest starting to call some of those customers and see how happy they are with the service being provided by the new, smaller, (and hopefully less responsive) old company. Determine from an economic standpoint what you can realistically afford to charge to cover your expenses and get back on the horse that threw you. My guess is that you can afford as a startup to charge significantly less than the old company did since you're not having to inflate your budget to cover the cost of bigwigs who needed to cut expenses to cover their bonuses in the first place. It's happened before.
"Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"
Doesn't matter what it is, just build something around AJAX.