A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Customers gleefully avoid the Blockbuster none-of-these-look-good-just-pick-one-already-zombie-walk — and NetFlix just put Blockbuster out of business — but is this a workable business model? Turning a profit at a growing company is nearly impossible regardless of business model.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2016

You are therefore forced to build some other competitive advantage into your business. For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? No, because Etsy has built a marketplace ; the presence of buyers and sellers is their primary asset.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Some startups die because their business model is platform-dependant. WordPress itself is open source; Automattic (the company behind WordPress) couldn't kill off this community if they tried. Like this: Used to be, Twitter let you post anything, even advertisements, even if you didn't identify those tweets as ads.

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