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It certainly seems to me that any great creative person has borrowed ideas liberally from the people around them. It's good to be a student of your art. Don't you think that a great inventor like Thomas Edison was very aware of what all of his contemporaries were doing?

I've seen Mark Cuban say something to this effect several times over the last few months: "You should know more about your market than anyone." We analyze other startups because in order to really make a change, you have to understand your environment and how things work.