Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley

Re:Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley by willcipriano on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:59PM (#23923173)

>What R&D do you need? CRUD is solved, hosting is solved, UX is solved, scaling is solved, marketing is solved ...

If you don't need R&D, doesn't that mean your competitor also doesn't need R&D? Where's the moat?

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Re:Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley by jariel on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:45PM (#23923391)

There are many moats to businesses, often they are not dervied from tech. Most monopolies are operationally incumbent. Amazon (just the retail part) doesn't have any truly special tech, but reams of know how and operational competence with scale.

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Re:Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley by Swizec on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:08PM (#23923209)

Moat is having unique insight into the problem/domain.

No moat anymore in terms of “We can build a webapp faster than you can”

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