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Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
I agree, It seems risky to not invest in R&D in any company.
The key takeaway for me was that the mid-2000s were the perfect time to be a founder of a software tool. I can’t help but feel that there are so many tens of thousands of similar stories without such a successful conclusion. In previous roles I’ve used BuiltWith before and it’s an invaluable tool. There’s a few companies with similar approaches except focusing on social media profiles (HypeAuditor comes to mind) that…
My non-tech ventures are doing well which is nice for a change of pace after decades of coding, though. I bought a bunch of relatively cheap (3-4 figure cost) manufacturing equipment and turned a spare bedroom into a workshop for designing and creating physical goods. I have a line of home decor that sells well enough that I'm dropping a stack of packages off at the post office 5 nights a week.
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With 0 employees, why have the office with all the desks in the background in the picture at the top of the page. It’s pretty clear there are other people doing something , whether they are called “employees” or not.
The photo at the top is almost 10 years old, and was from when BW still had a cofounder. It doesn't any more. He probably doesn't have that office any more.
Who are their major competitors? At that revenue number and with no innovation and no R&D (zero employees), seems like a no brainer for some smart hacker to replicate and provide the same service for less.
With 0 employees who maintains the site/infra or adds features/datasets? Things aren't adding up in this article.
Gary Brewer probably just maintains the system by himself these days.
Genuine question, outside of bragging rights, what advantage does this kind of PR have ? If you found a niche that no one else has turned into a race to the bottom yet, why would you want the world to know about it ? It's like Warren Buffet telling everyone what stocks he will be picking. Maybe if the startup was yet to gain traction, this would help get the word out. But from the sounds of it, it is already generati…
1) the pie is big enough, you just have to convince pie holders to give their pieces to you
2) you only need one client to generate all revenue, but many small clients is more intuitive
3) there are many individuals and companies sitting on large revenue streams. headlines come from people that need to advertise, not the ones that don’t.