Hey Startups: Don’t be Shy About Your Competition(bostinnovation.com)

16 pointsby apetroc15 yıl önce4 comments

Hey Startups: Don’t be Shy About Your Competition

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/09/21/hey-startups-dont-be-shy-about-your-competition/?ref=hn

3 comments

jallmann15 yıl önce

> Don’t get stuck with building a platform stack with Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings from Heroku, CloudFoundry and OpenShift – we’ll give you out-of-the-box features that offer a much easier and richer user experience.

That's a useless pitch, it tells me nothing about the product, which simply generates an API for you. (I had to go to the website to figure that out -- http://www.kinvey.com/) I can't imagine this as a one-size-fits-all solution, except for the simplest of CRUD apps.

also: http://xkcd.com/927/

kragen15 yıl önce

Remember when Google was a startup? At the bottom of every search results page were links to try the same search on every major search engine, so you could easily see how much better Google's results were — or, occasionally, get results from AltaVista's more comprehensive index when Google's was too small.

cpt113815 yıl önce

Ok so you listed your competition. So how do you differentiate yourselves?

nickadams15 yıl önce

Exactly. I'm not sure what the lesson was in that article...

Most everyone has competition. The real task is determining and articulating (to your team and your customers) what makes you better. If you can't do that you're screwed.

Hisoka15 yıl önce

Yep, I don't see the point as well. Reality is there's a lot of ppl in this world (way too many) and all are striving for similar goals. We can't all have the piece of the pie.. we can't all have our dreams fulfilled... it's harsh, but it's a dog eat dog world.