[JohnFen]

> If startups are beating you at your game with a tiny fraction of the employees, funding and resource

If you're a huge corporation like Google, you're not even playing the same game as any startup in the first place, and trying to compete with them as if you were is likely to end in tears.

The same is true the other way around. If you're a small company, you're unlikely to beat a major corporation by playing the game that major corporations play.

Being a small company gives strengths and weaknesses that large companies don't have -- and vice versa. Smart companies of any size play to their own strengths rather than trying to play to the competition's strengths.