No, go take a look at Diandian vs Tumblr and tell me whether Diandia's website is a carbon copy of Tumbr's website.
Since when is cloning another website defensible?
Look, if you want do a Tumblr-like startup, sure by all means go ahead. But why do you have to clone your competition's website?
Competition is good. Friendster begets Myspace begets Facebook. When Facebook was first launched in 2004, do you think people say,"Another Myspace clone."? No, they say, "Another Mysapce-like startup."
Well, we can just about write off inovation in China. If a heavy weight like Lee, who has worked in Silicon Valley for 2 decades and named his incubator Innovation Works, is cloning Silicon Valley startups shamelessly, what hope is there?
Look, if you want do a Tumblr-like startup, sure by all means go ahead. But why do you have to clone the original website?
Competition is good. Friendster begets Myspace begets Facebook. When Facebook was first launched in 2004, do you think people say,"Another Myspace clone."? No, they say, "Another Mysapce-like startup."
Well, the Chinese have no shame. If copy-paste your competitor's UI isn't shameless, I don't know what is. Seriously you raise funding and yet wouldn't spend some of it on a good UX designer?
Hire an architect to do the specification ($40k for 2 months), and one board designer ($120k as contractor for 6 months) and two layout engineers ($36k total) to implement the design. For redesign, use a contractor at $75 per hour (budget $4k). This is for top-quality Valley talent. If you do this overseas, costs will be 1/3 but you will need more redesign.
$10k for software tool licenses
$50k for prototype PCBs
hmmm, no mention that Google actually had >50% search market share in China during 2001-2002.
Badiu' share only start to sky rocket after:
1) people in China having lag and latency issue surfing Google's website.
2) Baidu's deep linking of pirated mp3 music files. In effect Baidu acts like thepiratebay.com and the China's youths defected en mass to Baidu.
The VCs must be a very optimistic bunch. Fusion Garage is 2 product cycle behind Ipad, one product cycle behind the current Android tablet entrant.
I don't see the Android tablets competing with the Ipad yet (the UX experience just isn't there). However, once Android tablets pricing drops to $350 in another 2 product cycles, sales will take off as people buy Android tablet in lieu of netbooks.
As long as people are not looking at Android tablet as netbook replacement, Android tablet would continue to be a niche product.
you are so wrong. I was working for Carly at Lucent in '99. Both Lucent and Nortel was showing gigantic growth with huge sales and profits figures but it was all a ponzi scheme.
They were selling to all these CLECs and vendor financing the CLECs. That means while Nortel is selling a lot of stuff, no money is coming in because Nortel is financing all the sales itself.When the dotcom boom crashed, the CLECs run out ot capital and couldn't pay back Nortel and Lucent. Both companies have to take huge write-offs and face huge cash crunches.
Compare that to Nokia. Nokia's in its last quarter generated EUR 1 billion of free cashflow. Just for comparison, Google generated $2.35 billion in free cashflow.
Since when is cloning another website defensible?
Look, if you want do a Tumblr-like startup, sure by all means go ahead. But why do you have to clone your competition's website?
Competition is good. Friendster begets Myspace begets Facebook. When Facebook was first launched in 2004, do you think people say,"Another Myspace clone."? No, they say, "Another Mysapce-like startup."