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February 15, 2006

The bright side of non-defensibility

Regarding Pete Cashmore's review of Edgeio and the comments on Edgeio's "defensibility". 

Shouldn't this term be RIPed? Aren’t there enough example that prove that it' s a NON-ISSUE. Isn't it clear yet that almost nothing in software is 'defensible'?  The big guys can always put together the required number of brains to develop anything. It 'll take a year or 18 months but they'll do it. Does that mean it will be successful ? Sometimes they'll succeed and sometimes not, and that's part of the risk you take when you do anything in life.  del.icio.us is a perfect example that Yahoo tried to reproduce with no success. When people create products that are their passion, it conveys somehow and it can be very hard to reproduce. 

We recently raised money from VCs, I'll write about it later, but before Web 2.0 services became so hot, the issue of 'defensibility' was a show stopper. Luckily for us – to build 'Non-defensible' products doesn't take too many people nor money. Otherwise we wouldn't have been doing what we do today.

For those happy few who've never tried to raise VC money: Defensibility refers to how difficult it will be for others to copy or compete against you.   

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