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This kind of articulates a larger attitude I feel about startups in general - too many people are going for too much. Right now, a bunch of companies are going
by gallerdude 9y ago
This kind of articulates a larger attitude I feel about startups in general - too many people are going for too much. Right now, a bunch of companies are going for too much of the metaphorical self-driving pie.
But, there's a lot of niches with less competition - yeah, the slice might be smaller, but I'd rather have a 90% chance at 10% of the pie than a 10% chance at 90% of the pie.
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y agoPeople need to corner some niche of the self driving X market then expand. Going for the whole pie is foolharder unless you already have name recognition.
- malandrew 9y agoWhat niches do you consider unexploited or lacking in competition?
- gallerdude 9y agoI'm not thinking of anything in specific - just in general, more people levitate towards the big things rather than the small things.
- nojvek 9y agoSelf driving cars will fundamentally change society. By the time we figure out self driving cars, we'll have enough tech for autonomous drones, trucks, planes, mail delivery bots, fork lifts, tractors. I bet whoever capitalizes on this will end up becoming the world's most valuable company. This is a horse-> horseless transformation again.
- sangnoir 9y ago> Self driving cars will fundamentally change society. They said the same about internet shopping way back before the dot com bubble burst. There were hundreds of web-vans, but only one Amazon. I guess everyone thinks of themselves as the Amazon of self driving rather than CueCat[1]. 1. I'm embarrassed to say I badly wanted one. http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915_1991909_1991857,00.html http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...