A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? Now that Facebook has open-sourced their entire data center infrastructure, does that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Facebook as a social network?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

and more," which the long-time readers already know I think is dumb , and their " About Us " copy is similarly useless: "We’ve embarked on an exciting quest to let even more people realize the tremendous potential of social networks as a real-time information platforms.". Their slogan is "World's Best Tweeters. Oh happy day!

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