Re: Summary of Responses: Whirlers and Environments (Long)

["Jane Bergen" <jbergen1 -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

My experience has been the opposite from Marguerite's. Larger
companies (50 people is not really a large company...at least not in
Dallas, Texas) have more structure and things are much LESS likely to
"go through the cracks."

Start-up companies often tend to have false starts, back-ups in
direction, changes in midstream, etc. They are usually intensely led
by one person...great if it works, but not pretty when it doesn't.
I've worked for both and much prefer a larger company with a solid
record than a start-up or small company that is held closely by a
single person or a chosen few.

Jane Bergen


----- Original Message -----
From: "krupp, marguerite" <krupp_marguerite -at- emc -dot- com>

> Eric wrote:
>
> >I'd hate to imagine the documentation department of a post-startup
> >company if the structure and organzation was established by someone
> >with a startup mindset and no experience with functional
> >pubs groups in large organizations.
>
> .........................
(snipped)
>
> Once a company size passes about 50 people, it's no longer possible
for
> everyone to schmooze daily with everyone else, so things go through
the
> cracks, and people start getting unhappy. In a startup, you have to
put in
> long hours and turn on a dime. Once you have a real customer base
and enough

(snipped)
>
> Marguerite