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When the cat’s away, the mice…
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I think Marc Andreessen — as usual — puts his finger on something important in his post on how the Microsoft-Yahoo merger (assuming it actually goes through) will affect the startup climate in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in the technosphere. Among other things, he point
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John Furrier 5 months ago with 1 point
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
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