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It’s hard being the new product in the BCG matrix. Incumbents seldom remember how meager the traction looked in the beginnings of the lifecycle of their current
by lokimedes 5y ago
It’s hard being the new product in the BCG matrix. Incumbents seldom remember how meager the traction looked in the beginnings of the lifecycle of their current cash cows.
- silvestrov 5y agoeven more so when it takes some years before the product gets traction. Twitter was not an overnight success. The first few years it was ridiculed as a big "completely useless" failure by journalists: the same people which now cannot live without it.
- eitland 5y ago> Twitter was not an overnight success. The first few years it was ridiculed as a big "completely useless" failure by journalists: the same people which now cannot live without it. My opinion: In fact Twitter is still amazingly useless and is a prime example of a product succeeding despite its flaws instead of because something. And no, I'm not this negative towards everything simple. Snapchat for example has a point, I can see the point of it even if I use it even less than Twitter. Twitter succeed because Google botched Google+ after first using all the oxygen in the market together with Facebook.