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Let's say 2 companies raise $10 million each. One company spends $8 million on R&D and $2 million on marketing. The other company re-uses the former company's o
by guptaneil 7y ago
Let's say 2 companies raise $10 million each. One company spends $8 million on R&D and $2 million on marketing. The other company re-uses the former company's open source work and pours all $10 million into marketing.
Who will win? Who should win?
- jwkane 7y ago^^ this is exactly the right way to approach this. The answer is not obvious, not to me anyway. The $10 million marketing company will crush the original company, the product will wither without technical backing and fade into obsolescence. Long term everyone loses. How can we change the rules of the game (license?) so the end users win. It would please my personal sense of justice if the big R&D company also won, but I am satisfied with the simpler requirement of end users not getting shafted and the product thriving.
- capableweb 7y agoWhat does "win" mean here? Survives 5 years without being bankrupt/bought? Has a high valuation? Survives 20 years? It's no guarantee that a company with 10/2 of marketing/R&D split would be any better than the other company with 2/10 of marketing/R&D.