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by tome 5328 days ago
One simple rule of business: commoditize your complements.

I'm surpised no one else has mentioned that. It's a very powerful idea, and essentially what this blog post is getting at. I don't know if Joel Spolsky coined that phrase, but that's where I first heard it:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html