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Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Tue, Nov 05, 2013, 9:41 PM UTC

jessaustin wrote: post #130

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trader in me smells fear in this post, not confidence. To (quickly) test my intuition I compared the language in this post with the last two [1,2] using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) statistic [3]. This statistic tends to decrease by 0.4 to 0.8 following trauma [4]. The original post was written with the sentence and vocabulary complexity of a 6th or 7th grader (6.9). The other two were more at the level…

Are three data points enough when the topics are different? This is fine as a check on intuition, but maybe that's as far as it goes?

That's certainly as far as it goes. This is more an intellectual toy.

Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong

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Post by Shooti » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 2:35 AM UTC

sfpirate wrote: post #5

Compare Evernote with Google Keep. The latter, which came out later, converted me to use the former. You have nothing to worry about. A big company sucks at copying ideas. An innovative big company gives incentives to defensive maneuvers like this, but never sees them through to an offensive maneuver unless there's billions at immediate risk. If anything, Google is doing you a favor by shining the spotlight on a medi…

Google Keep is more of an iOS/OS X Notes competitor, not an Evernote competitor.

Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong

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Post by augustocallejas » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 3:53 PM UTC

I found this post highly insincere and filed with veiled bitterness.

Regardless, I see the potential in the market for online expertise and would recommend aligning yourself with some verticals to provide some needed focus.

Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong

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Post by cylinder » Wed, Nov 06, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #16

There have been a number of similar startups and companies, so it's a stretch to assume that Google stumbled upon your company and decided to copy it. (Not to say they don't do exactly that -- but they target big proven markets, like Dropbox and Groupon and Facebook.) 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 revenu…

The color theme (green buttons and favicon) is identical and the front pages look very similar.