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You will learn very quickly a head start doesn’t mean anything against very powerful competitors.
by deadbabe 3y ago
You will learn very quickly a head start doesn’t mean anything against very powerful competitors.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> a head start doesn’t mean anything against very powerful competitors You know what powerful competitors have a habit of doing? The thing that keeps them powerful? Buying those with a head start.
- deadbabe 3y agoThat’s the diplomatic option, otherwise they’ll just crush you.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> otherwise they’ll just crush you If you go for their core business, sure. Otherwise, this is cartoonish.
- danielmarkbruce 3y agoEven if you go for their core business they might not crush you! Social media being the obvious example. If you go for a full frontal attack on their core business, you'll probably get crushed. Short of that... working at a fang will make anyone not very scared of them.
- objektif 3y agoGood thing is that they can not crush everyone all at once. Large businesses have priorities.
- cellis 3y agoOh, but it does. Innovator's Dilemma.When Microsoft started, IBM could have destroyed them, if they were willing to become a software first and not a Mainframe company. When Google launched, Microsoft Could have easily "crushed" them, IF they were willing to cannibalize their existing business. Facebook/Instagram is one major data point where this didn't happen. Never forget that "powerful competitors" are slow. Very, very slow, even past 200 employees. Meetings and arguments increase the latency of delivering new products and services. Incentives start to be misaligned that make it difficult to continue delivering at the same quality ( why should I put in 2X to build 100X value, when I'm only getting 0.02%? ) Worry more about the startups that start alongside you.
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