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Have you worked in the R&D department of a big company? Did Nokia match Apple? Why not? Was it a resource problem? Did MS matched Android? Why not?. I mean th
by streetcat1 7y ago
Have you worked in the R&D department of a big company?
Did Nokia match Apple? Why not? Was it a resource problem?
Did MS matched Android? Why not?. I mean the biggest OS company in the world has no mobile OS?
Did IBM matched Dec?
Have you seen a big company do that? If yes, can you give a concrete example, where a big company killed a startup?
Do you know what motivates big company R&D decisions?
- nostrademons 7y agoI have worked in the R&D department of a big company (Google Search). I'm currently a startup founder. There is no way in hell I would want to compete directly with Google on terrain they are dominant in. Several startups have tried and failed (Cuil, Blekko), as well as one big company (Bing) and one that's become a successful niche business (DDG, occupying the niche of privacy-conscious searchers that's significantly smaller than the general population but cares a lot about that one attribute that Google can't match).