"Take a look around the net and make certain that you don’t have another huge player operating in the space that you want to move into."
BS, That is how you end up selling hats for iguanas, dont be afraid of competition just make sure to do something better.
Why is the link to the last comment, not to the beginning of the article? Took me a while to read the linked comment, and to figure out why it was so important. It wasn't. :)
As someone who hasn’t gotten too deep into hackerdom yet, this thought goes through my mind often when viewing a newly launched startup:<p>“What you need to understand, right now if you have not already, is that early adopters are not real people. The geeks, techies, friends and family that initially use your product are not representative of the public at large. Their opinions on your product are not representative of what the mainstream will think.”<p>I suppose most people want to use their hacking skills to make something useful in their domain of expertise. Unfortunately, for most hackers their domain of expertise is hacking, which limits the userspace.