Doesn't mean the article doesn't look insightful though.
> 7. If you have a product that a very large company really wants, they'll still do everything they can to delay purchasing it for the market price. They'll try to hire you or your partner(s) away individually, or they'll wait as long as possible to see if you encounter hard financial times and go under. They won't come and just offer to license your product or buy you out until they've exhausted all other possibilities.
This is the opposite of normal enterprise sales in my experience (we do HR software). If you are talking to the right person, and you have a solution to their business problem at a suitable price (not too high, not too low) then the very last thing they want to do is to kill the deal with these kinds of shenanigans.
Selling to programmers though is the opposite, and frankly is to be avoided at all costs.