Is your startup a company or just a feature?(sachin.posterous.com)
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Is your startup a company or just a feature?
http://sachin.posterous.com/make-sure-your-startup-is-a-company-not-a-fea
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First, HDR is not available on the iPhone 3G or 3GS so those who didn't have a 4 would buy the app (and they do). Second, Posterous email-in a blog post is a feature that is available to any blog platform I'm aware of but what they did differently is to focus on it making blogging as simple as can be. It was sort of a reverse engineering of the whole work-flow. That turned into a community and it is that community that is the product. They found a niche within making a company based on a neglected feature. Cute.
Agree, it may even be a good thing for them, because as apple is popularizing HDR picture, friends with 3G phones will want to do the same and find an app. Sometimes it's nice to have the big player do the education of the market.
Feature v. Company is a matter of scale. Google buys real companies all the time and turns them into features.
Posted something similar a while back:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580396
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580396
the way i see it, companies are a just feature of the entrepreneurial life.
Here you go new acronym: FNAC - Feature not a company
He called Apple the greatest company in the world. Anyone else immediately flinch?
"Greatest" could mean so many different things, but I can see some definitions of the word under which Apple could claim that title.
Including market cap.
I consider myself an apple hater (or at least wanna-be hater), but I have to give credit where credit is due. There are some things, like design process, publicity control, and outright valuation where apple is almost undisputably the top dog (right now).
I consider myself an apple hater (or at least wanna-be hater), but I have to give credit where credit is due. There are some things, like design process, publicity control, and outright valuation where apple is almost undisputably the top dog (right now).
Leverage is mostly about having a place to stand on
not about having a big stick.
As long at the developer retained more revenue than it cost to develop the product then it was a success. I don't care whether my startup is a 'company' or a 'feature' I care whether it makes money. If you can sell to another company just before your product becomes a commodity then that's even better.
Sounds like he's just jealous the IM Sense guys got a pay day for a $1 app.
Money Quote: "Surely their sales would drop to near zero since the feature is now free."
Better let the bottled water industry know they are about to be put out of business by the tap.