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It seems all or most pg's articles just say the opposite: a startup should climb the highest hills, and can do so faster the big corporations because they are l
by gbog 15y ago
It seems all or most pg's articles just say the opposite: a startup should climb the highest hills, and can do so faster the big corporations because they are light-weight. If I'm not mistaking, "climbing" here do not mean find a genius idea or a disrupting design for a search field, it means developping something hard in software.
The conclusion should be that a startups that is not doing something technically hard should be considered in trouble (because so easy to clone).
- Aga 15y agoI think it does not have to mean "developing something hard in software", but more like "finding an unsolved problem and using software to solve it." It does not have to be hard to solve in the software side. I guess the hardest part is finding the right problem to solve!
- wnight 15y agoWhat I think, for what you may think it's worth, is that you should climb the highest hills, that you'll have to climb, right away. Best to know you can do it before wasting time. But, that you should look for the easiest way to success. It'll take months for a large company to have the meetings to acknowledge your niche, let alone try to serve it. The only thing you have to fear is another startup and you're at the advantage is that situation. Building huge walls or picking a niche with a large cost to serve, is like wasting time on DRM for your game, instead of working on marketing and having someone actually buy it.