| >> Long-term opportunities that are easily defendable with minimal effort are extremely rare in the tech startups field. I used to buy that. Then I started looking around: 1) What's McAfee today that it wasn't 30 years ago?
2) Windows 10 is a slightly newer look with small WinRT runtime (which may have come from WinCE I don't know) but most of the software underneath is the same code running for over 2 decades as it looks to my eyes.
3) SereneScreen fish screensaver, has it changed much?
4) How many years has Skype been around? Put some lipstick on the pig and if it ever sold at all, software is renewable. Also your restaurant analogy isn't really fair, it takes a lot of work every day to keep a popular restaurant popular regardless of location. >> Now thousands of people are going to see what you're doing, and dozens are going to try to clone you, many of them far better connected than you are. Linux is better than Windows yet what runs on most desktops?
OS/2 was far, far better than Windows yet Windows is still on desktops because IBM stopped selling OS/2 (and PC's for that matter); not because people would not still be buying it but because they are more interested in selling mainframes (which were supposed to be dead by now). |
(Well, you don’t need to be the best, just very good).