> Some wise lisp programmer once said - I'm paraphrasing - that one of the reasons his company was able to compete in a market of 30 odd players was that they could often duplicate a new feature within a day or two of a competitor announcing it in a press release.
That was YC's own Paul Graham talking about ViaWeb i think.
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> Some wise lisp programmer once said - I'm paraphrasing - that one of the reasons his company was able to compete in a market of 30 odd players was that they could often duplicate a new feature within a day or two of a competitor announcing it in a press release.
That was YC's own Paul Graham talking about ViaWeb i think.
Yes, it's from his Beating the Averages essay: http://paulgraham.com/avg.html