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YC Is a Network Effect Business (2014)
- ganeshkrishnan 8y agoAll startups are network effect business. The unfortunate side effect of this is that brilliant startups in third world countries wither and die in spite of having accomplished more technical progress Some of the yc companies are technically inferior to their competitors but they are more successful due to the network effect. Eg we use both yc flexport and their competitor freightos. Freightos is much easier,has API, is automated and is real time with much more choices. We ended up integrating with freightos