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We’re knights in King Arthur’s court, and we’re going to seek the Holy Grail. We’re astronauts on a mission to outer space, and the backyard is an alien planet. We’re building a pillow fort – it’s our castle for the afternoon. Make-Believe is a fun, harmless fantasy game for all the kids in the neighborhood to enjoy. Just like young kids, young companies love to play Startup Make-Believe: Pretending to be something that they’re not, in particular a much larger and more mature business. Our enterprise SaaS competitor throws the best industry events, and sends 100 people to AWS’ annual conference – we need to send as many people as we can afford. I heard of a company have teams of 50+ engineers just to maintain their deployment infrastructure – we need at least 4 people to make sure that our deployments are world class. Internal alignment on velocity is vital – we should have a department just for internal training on how to be more efficient. The problem is that: If you catch yourself p

Startup Make-Believe | Stay SaaSy © 2026. Stay SaaSy. 30 Oct 2023 • startups Remember playing Make-Believe as a kid? We’re knights in King Arthur’s court, and we’re going to seek the Holy Grail. We’re astronauts on a mission to outer space, and the backyard is an alien planet. We’re building a pillow fort – it’s our castle for the afternoon. Make-Believe is a fun, harmless fantasy game for all the kids in the neighborhood to enjoy. Just like young kids, young companies love to play Startup Make-Believe: Pretending to be something that they’re not, in particular a much larger and more

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