Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise 4th Edition by Thomas Byers,Richard Dorf ,Andrew Nelson

Exercise 3

3 Your emerging new company is selling a high-priced software system to newspapers and magazines. Each sale amounts to $100,000 or more. Your firm is scheduled to deliver a system next week to one of your best customers. However, your chief technical officer has just told you that they have found a major software error that will take two to three weeks to fix. You are counting on the sale within this month so that you can meet payroll and pay all your delinquent bills. Your CFO suggests you ship the system now and send in a team later to fix the error. Your CTO wants to fix it first and then ship. What should you do?