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Re:Munchery Shuts Down by manigandham on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:56AM (#18966503)
What does "business defined by technology" actually mean? Can you describe it clearly?

Since technology is applied science, why does a hospital using complex scientific machines to deliver healthcare not qualify but a company building a webapp to order food does? Where's the line exactly?

Re:Munchery Shuts Down by kkarakk on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:48AM (#18966939)
Can your whole online business be trivially replaced with a phonecall to a local service? congrats you're not a company that can succeed in the tech space because the competition is skyhigh.

Nowadays i'd say a tech company is defined by the "tech" it is implementing to disrupt/control the market. no disruption tech = waste of vc capital. "we do x better" isn't enough to last unless it's so radically better it is a new space(google's call screening feature could be spun off into it's own company for eg)

Re:Munchery Shuts Down by manigandham on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @09:29AM (#18968420)
What is the "tech space"? That's still conflating tech as just computing.
Re:Munchery Shuts Down by lazyasciiart on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:49PM (#18970390)
Yes. That’s how it is used.