Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
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Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#2Well 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
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#3Well 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.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#4I'm surprised Google didn't aqui-hire these folks and turn LiveNinja into Google Helpouts.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#5Compare 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 mediocre solution. All you need now is the product to tap into that dissatisfied channel. They just validated the significance of your market for you. Good luck!
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#6Well 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
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'.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#7Well 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
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. :)
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#8Looks like somebody wants to be aqui-hired.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#9Great attitude. I've known a start-up or two that either pivoted or dropped their project altogether at the news of Google releasing a similar idea.
Google is great at engineering, but the new iteration of Google Maps is proof IMO that they're not a great at products.
With that said, I'm sure y'all at Live Ninja will throw the knock out punch.
Re: Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
#10Compare 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…
I think Live Ninja team realize this and they made this really good PR move. It really deserves upvoting IMHO.