Comments on: When the cat’s away, the mice… http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/05/when-the-cats-away-the-mice/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: John Furrier http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/05/when-the-cats-away-the-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-374482 John Furrier Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:26:23 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/05/when-the-cats-away-the-mice/#comment-374482 Matthew,<br>The issue about startups is that they have to be careful not to be colateral damage. I think that if done right a startup can be a service provider during this tech war. I've seen it in 96-99. On the other side of the coin startups have to be careful about not having the titan take their idea and quickly emulate it. Now more then ever the ability to have weapons is the key for the titans. As Marc says they are "armored up". Memo to startups..build those weapons - it's a war time venture.<br><br>John <br><a href="http://furrier.org" rel="nofollow">http://furrier.org</a> Matthew,
The issue about startups is that they have to be careful not to be colateral damage. I think that if done right a startup can be a service provider during this tech war. I've seen it in 96-99. On the other side of the coin startups have to be careful about not having the titan take their idea and quickly emulate it. Now more then ever the ability to have weapons is the key for the titans. As Marc says they are “armored up”. Memo to startups..build those weapons – it's a war time venture.

John
http://furrier.org

]]> By: John Furrier http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/05/when-the-cats-away-the-mice/comment-page-1/#comment-342527 John Furrier Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:26:23 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/02/05/when-the-cats-away-the-mice/#comment-342527 Matthew,<br>The issue about startups is that they have to be careful not to be colateral damage. I think that if done right a startup can be a service provider during this tech war. I've seen it in 96-99. On the other side of the coin startups have to be careful about not having the titan take their idea and quickly emulate it. Now more then ever the ability to have weapons is the key for the titans. As Marc says they are "armored up". Memo to startups..build those weapons - it's a war time venture.<br><br>John <br><a href="http://furrier.org">http://furrier.org</a> Matthew,
The issue about startups is that they have to be careful not to be colateral damage. I think that if done right a startup can be a service provider during this tech war. I've seen it in 96-99. On the other side of the coin startups have to be careful about not having the titan take their idea and quickly emulate it. Now more then ever the ability to have weapons is the key for the titans. As Marc says they are “armored up”. Memo to startups..build those weapons – it's a war time venture.

John
http://furrier.org

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