Service, Low Maintenance, and Lunch
The more alignment, the better.
Time for business rules, the ones which defined a Geoffrey win.
Requirement for a Win 1) Serve the Customer
...which means no bullshit products or services.
Another way to look at it: the win must a) allow Customers to make more money, b) save them money, c) make it easier for them to do their jobs, d) more/all the above.
This creates alignment for the company and the Customer.
The more alignment, the better.
Requirement for a Win 2) Low Maintenance
...which means 100% automated from monitoring to reporting to billing and well crafted.
This forged a new Engineering Department motto. (More on both Engineering vs Developing and the motto another time.)
This requirement also forced me to level up my code game.
Requirement for a Win 3) Lunch
...which means it needed to make $10 a day profit.
That's a salad or a burrito.
I took to calling 100% automated + $10/day a picosaas™. (No, not really.)
Now I just needed an opportunity.
