http://www.raydeck.com/2005/11/plus-one-economics/ Startup perspective on the business of technology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:27:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.raydeck.com/2005/11/plus-one-economics/#comment-197 Thu, 18 May 2006 11:48:00 +0000 http://www.raydeck.com/2005/11/plus-one-economics/#comment-197 [...] On the heels of my prior post with a funny title, I confess to inspiration from the ineffable Mr. Arrington. In his report AOL to Release YouTube Clone he discusses what I see as a huge problem with the currently fashionable plus-one strategies: I am seeing an increasing trend of the big guys simply copying what successful startups are doing. AOL with this product and AIM Spaces. Google with Google Notepad and a flurry of other projects, etc. The only large company that is even experimenting with unproven concepts at this point is Microsoft with its various Live.com ideas. I’d like to see more experimenting at the big company level. [...] […] On the heels of my prior post with a funny title, I confess to inspiration from the ineffable Mr. Arrington. In his report AOL to Release YouTube Clone he discusses what I see as a huge problem with the currently fashionable plus-one strategies: I am seeing an increasing trend of the big guys simply copying what successful startups are doing. AOL with this product and AIM Spaces. Google with Google Notepad and a flurry of other projects, etc. The only large company that is even experimenting with unproven concepts at this point is Microsoft with its various Live.com ideas. I’d like to see more experimenting at the big company level. […]

]]> http://www.raydeck.com/2005/11/plus-one-economics/#comment-188 Fri, 12 May 2006 20:31:25 +0000 http://www.raydeck.com/2005/11/plus-one-economics/#comment-188 [...] This last situation is the most disastrous strategically but is the one encouraged by this ”plus one” feature creep. Making things worse is the walled garden effect, where you build everything, eating a large amount of expense in development (and increasing the user’s barrier to extracting value) and compete on the basis of the marginal feature. Difficult, and to my mind insane. [...] […] This last situation is the most disastrous strategically but is the one encouraged by this ”plus one” feature creep. Making things worse is the walled garden effect, where you build everything, eating a large amount of expense in development (and increasing the user’s barrier to extracting value) and compete on the basis of the marginal feature. Difficult, and to my mind insane. […]

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