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But I don’t have to please every client and don’t have to jump through hoops for small dollars. It would depend on the product/market if this was the normal expectation then I’d find that out rather quickly and may decide differently. But I’ve never been asked for anything like this and would gladly just say no if it was a small dollar value at stake.


I guess it would depend on the size of the sale.

My former company sold on-premises enterprise software. Sales were usually a monthly fee in the $10k+ range.

Our company started quite small: 4 people, and in Australia but selling into the US and UK mostly.

Basically every one of our customers wanted source code escrow. The cost to use was minimal, both in effort and for the escrow agent.




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