Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google...
by Retric on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @11:44AM
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It's risky to leave customers out that will feed your competition.
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Re:How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google...
by csallen on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @11:53AM
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Every business decision carries risk. The question is whether or not the risk is acceptable.
If you don't want to serve any customers making under $10M, then other companies serving those customers are not your competition. At least not today. Is there a risk they might take their broader customer base and use it to compete with you upmarket some day? Yes. But that's why you do things like build a brand, relationships, technologies, and other competitive advantages within your niche.
Fancy steakhouses generally don't worry about McDonald's. (Not that this is a perfect analogy to Google vs MapBox. Just speaking generally here in response to your general point.)