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A comment on Ask HN: Has any startup died due to idea being copied by a big company?.

Re:Ask HN: Has any startup died due to idea being copied by ... by mlejva on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:42AM (#14030364)
There was a company called Kiko[0]. They made it into YC back in 2007 I think. They were basically building Google Calendar. After a year of work Google unveiled their Google Calendar and they had to sold their business. PG wrote about it in one of his essays[1].

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kiko#/entity

[1] http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html

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Re:Ask HN: Has any startup died due to idea being copied by ... by thewhitetulip on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:46AM (#14030677)
It is sad to know that. Couldn't google have bought the company altogether. Also how does this compare with imvu and snapchat (the two companies I know which didn't get outright killed because big companies tried to copy their product idea and failed)
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