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Notes to people wanting to hustle and form a company/startup. Note 1: Never underestimate the ability of the press and your fellow citizens to trash whatever y
by DanielBMarkham 15y ago
Notes to people wanting to hustle and form a company/startup.
Note 1: Never underestimate the ability of the press and your fellow citizens to trash whatever you are doing. Because if you are providing value and making money, you are doing more than 99% of the people out there. They will punish you for this.
Note 2: Always expect a lawyer to call. The other 1% who are providing value have learned that the best way to keep making more and more money isn't to innovate; it's to use the political and legal system as a club to kill the little upstarts. Be ready for the club.
Note 3: People who end up making a lot of value usually don't think anybody would much want what they have. First sale comes as a nice surprise. People who have grandiose dreams of killing the market usually wander off into fantasyland and never produce anything anybody wants.
Note 4: It's all marketing and distribution. Know your customer and be able to get close to them. If you can do that, you can experiment with things until you find something that works. The market comes first, the product second.
- jaysonelliot 15y agoDid you look at the product he was selling? It was a ripoff copy of the iPod Shuffle. Kind of ironic that you're accusing the Apple lawyers of trying to stifle innovation, when the kid was making his money from what was essentially a pirated product.
- bh42222 15y agoIs it any more of a ripoff then any of the other MP3 players which were manufactured specifically to compete with Apple? Except those companies were big and had lawyers of their own.
- masklinn 15y ago> Is it any more of a ripoff then any of the other MP3 players which were manufactured specifically to compete with Apple? Yes, most of those did not look almost exactly like shuffles. TFAA was selling shuffle knockoffs: http://imgur.com/s2v8A http://imgur.com/s2v8A That's not the kind of "business models" which should be condoned.
- sjs 15y agoThere are 100 other comments about all the things you mentioned. DanielBMarkham's comment is great, can't we just leave it at that or add to it constructively?