Paul Graham has intended to create an art gallery online as his first startup. But as he identified all disadvantages and the disapproval of art directors and managers at that certain time, he was left with a choice on online shopping carts. Ofcourse starting up isn’t that easy. Of all startups read, difficulty cannot be ran from. Hiring people, budgeting expenses and maintaining business functions are some identified being knowledgably challenging. Having these opportunities, on the other hand, for example is the promotion using other successful startups, like Netscape, etc. Another is showing first investors to obtain helpful budget for the startup. Finally is having technical bookstores as customers, because they have a competitive advantage against other companies, especially another who uses a similar system.

A problem encountered would be the need of users. Users, economically are scarce resources in the Information Technology world. Launching a website would be dead without users using and just visiting the site. It’s all free on whatever requests the users wanted because the startup is in desperate need of users. Having to scan images, publishing web pages, etc. are examples of what they had done for their users. What they were worried the most was how the site has been maintained. It is also significant that the website would look intrinsically attractive. As learned in class about computer history, User Interface is one element that is probably being forgotten, because the system processes are just the important elements in making the software. But as the evolution of software development has occurred dramatically, information technologists have treated the User Interface as an equal to the quality of processes. Good coding, processing and successful programming would indeed be a failure without good design in the user interface.

The important qualities of being a startup has been told every single case study written. In Graham’s team, he didn’t give up in hard times of their company, especially when the lowest point of their business arrived. Fred Egan has saved their company, but when one summer, this employee went away, the company had fallen into the traps of investors pressuring to take businessmen to take over the company. Lastly, even if the evolution of information technology is still happening in the industry, abstraction would never stop everyone from doing it. And for everyone’s information abstraction is the one thing the systems analyst applies into designing propositions for better improvements for an organization. Copying is a very serious matter and an unethical act to commit, but abstraction would just be a competitive advantage.