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0 pointssalman8913y ago0 comments

Great examples. How do you think this would apply in Dalton's case though, where the very mechanism of building on Facebook/Twitter's platform can be shut down by Facebook/Twitter?

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paulsutter13y ago· 2 in thread

I don't know. But unless you have a strategy, don't start a company. Without a strategy you're just picking up nickles in front of a steamroller.

I'm sure that strategies exist on any platform. Zynga doesn't seem worried that Facebook will copy its games (even if they do hate paying the platform tax). Many products are pretty safe from Facebook. For example, build an app for dentists, or personal trainers, or pregnant women.

petegrif13y ago

There only is one sure strategy for avoiding the potential steamroller of the platform company. Don't build on the platform.

scottrafer13y ago

Like any other resource or dependency that you build into your business, using a platform requires an ROI calculation of some sort. The distribution advantage needs to be worth the risk.

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