>If your idea is that great, then team up with some friends & go in on >a few Android phones. The competition in the Round II Challenge will >be dramatically less than Round I so your odds are much higher.
I think it will be higher simply because it will be more widely known by now and many who missed on the first challenge will joing the second. On May 8, 6:06 pm, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The greed & naivete here is rather astounding. > > First let me echo Jazz. The diff between Google & Apple is wildly > apparent here to those watching venture funds & VC funded companies. > > While Google is giving away $10M, Apple isn't simply being a puppet > for his buddies at Kleiner Perkins & Caulfield (KPC). Yeah it's > $100M, but it will go to a very small number of startups with very > well placed founders in exchange for a 51% equity stake. Not only > would KPC kick 99% of us out of our own companies and take our ideas > (as few of us have the CEO-level experience that they would demand), > but they'd squeeze us so we'd be lucky to get 5% of our company in the > end. > > At least with Google's Challenge, you have the possibility of > bootstrapping into your own successful venture. > > Watch...Apple will be lucky to get 50 entries submitted to its iFund. > > And puleez, no more silly requests for an Android phone until you > start demanding free iPhones from Apple for developing on their OS. > > If your idea is that great, then team up with some friends & go in on > a few Android phones. The competition in the Round II Challenge will > be dramatically less than Round I so your odds are much higher. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
