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> If I'm starting a flower business, is that a startup? No. I'm just starting a business. Selling flowers is a proven business model. Amazon was never a startu

> If I'm starting a flower business, is that a startup? No. I'm just starting a business. Selling flowers is a proven business model. Amazon was never a startup then. Selling books is a proven business model. Zappos was never a startup. Selling shoes is a proven business model. Heroku is not a startup. Selling application hosting is a proven business model. Github is not a startup. Code repositories have a long and storied history, and yes... are a proven business model.

pan69 14y ago
When Amazon launched it was pretty unique. Trying to sell books in a different way. Zappos had/has a unique customer support scheme that made/makes them very unique. Heroku took hosting to a new level, in 2007 it was not so easy to find scalable application hosting. Compare Github to Sourceforge. Github is pretty unique the way it adds the social element.