On Thursday, August 11, 2011 4:38:06 AM UTC+2, rcasto wrote: > > And who can compete harder than a company full of money and people? With > those kinds of resources, they are sure to beat you to the punch and there > will be nothing to stop them from beating you to a releasable product. In > order to be first, you will have to release a trash version first and then > polish it later. > > That's not how this industry works. Google developed google with very little money. Twitter did not have a lot of money. Nor did flickr. In fact, whenever a big company attempts to replicate a startup they often fail. Google Buzz failed, for example.
Fortunately, in the tech scene, you can't just throw money at a problem and end up with the best product. Due to something, presumably bureaucracy or an unwillingness to take risks, large companies often just get it wrong, and that's where small companies flourish. Name me a single example where a small company is surviving (or better yet, thriving) only because a patent is stopping bigcorp from cloning them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/u5hiSKLq8WEJ. 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/javaposse?hl=en.
