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Having Google enter your space must be one of the most crushing things that can happen to a small company. The feeling these guys felt when they saw the announcement must have been mortifying. Even if you have a superior product, like LiveNinja says they have, Google will outmarket you by so many orders of magnitude you just disappear into nothingness.
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Maybe I missed something but it sounds like a rant from a company that wishes they were bought but weren't. There doesn't seem to be any insight into how google is 'doing it wrong' other than a kind of 'they don't have the experience like us'.
Not the case. I'm surely not going to spell out exactly what they are doing wrong publicly in the post. We are competitors now after all. :)
You are clearing shooting to be aquihired
It's easy to forget that at any given moment, lots of smart people are independently identifying a market opportunity.
The good news is that the revenue for Google will be so low it will likely be shelved when they put more wood behind fewer arrows. I suggest writing your "We're sorry to see Google Helpouts go, here's how to import your profile" post in advance.
Well written and thought out post, I hope you get to sit down with the right people at Google tomorrow Will. Best of luck with Live Ninja, as an early beta user of hangouts and someone who had never seen Live Ninja before this AM I have to say i am truly impressed with what you guys have built at Live Ninja
Thanks so much! That really means a lot.
"Experts" and "expertise" in "Find Experts. Sell Expertise" is too general. I would try to come up with more concrete examples though I realize it's not an easy task.
Kudos and Best of luck. Sometimes the smaller nimble player are the key for a solution, which a decade back Google was, and now you may have that chance. Get it going, make it big and put a $X Billion price on the door.
...and yes don't go for knock out, make them sweat. Cheers!!!