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Firstly, don't characterize competition as a 8MM gorilla, when they are a startup. Second, don't worry about competition. Focus on your users. Listen to them.

by prakash 17y ago

Firstly, don't characterize competition as a 8MM gorilla, when they are a startup. Second, don't worry about competition. Focus on your users. Listen to them. Iterate rapidly. Add features request by your early users. The other way to think about it is the facebook > twitter status update* as a product. Taking one component of a successful product and making it a product. * comparisons to fb might not be completely accurate since one of the founders, apparently had the idea for twitter when folks were updating their IM clients.

apgwoz 17y ago
> comparisons to fb might not be completely accurate since one of the founders, apparently had the idea for twitter when folks were updating their IM clients. I had the idea for twitter back in 1998, but I didn't do anything with it, neither did the founder of facebook... Ideas mean nothing without execution.
ErrantX 17y ago
Firstly, don't characterize competition as a 8MM gorilla, when they are a startup. Even when they raised $8M in funding? http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/09/15/clicker.com-launches-web-tv-guide-$8-million http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/09/15/clicker.com-launches... I think the word startup is the one misplaced :)
- prakash 17y ago
  Even when they raised $8M in funding? Yes. $8MM doesn't mean they have customers/users.
  - ErrantX 17y ago
    I dont quite understand the relevance of that? $8M is probably a lot of money from where this guy is sitting :)
    - davi 17y ago
      It's amazing how much money rich organizations can waste, and how much time they can spend on the wasting. They can get tempted to reinvent a better wheel for $$$, rather than reusing existing wheels for cheap; then they get sucked into a time/money sink of epic proportions while the simpler solution grows like a weed. Not what always happens, but what can happen.
    - ams6110 17y ago
      $8MM is a lot of money but that doesn't mean it will be spent wisely. During the dot-com days I worked for a company that had $30MM in funding and pissed every cent of it away.
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by prakash 17y ago

apgwoz 17y ago

> comparisons to fb might not be completely accurate since one of the founders, apparently had the idea for twitter when folks were updating their IM clients. I had the idea for twitter back in 1998, but I didn't do anything with it, neither did the founder of facebook... Ideas mean nothing without execution.

ErrantX 17y ago

Firstly, don't characterize competition as a 8MM gorilla, when they are a startup. Even when they raised $8M in funding? http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/09/15/clicker.com-launches-web-tv-guide-$8-million http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/09/15/clicker.com-launches... I think the word startup is the one misplaced :)

prakash 17y ago
Even when they raised $8M in funding? Yes. $8MM doesn't mean they have customers/users.
- ErrantX 17y ago
  I dont quite understand the relevance of that? $8M is probably a lot of money from where this guy is sitting :)
  - davi 17y ago
    It's amazing how much money rich organizations can waste, and how much time they can spend on the wasting. They can get tempted to reinvent a better wheel for $$$, rather than reusing existing wheels for cheap; then they get sucked into a time/money sink of epic proportions while the simpler solution grows like a weed. Not what always happens, but what can happen.
  - ams6110 17y ago
    $8MM is a lot of money but that doesn't mean it will be spent wisely. During the dot-com days I worked for a company that had $30MM in funding and pissed every cent of it away.
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