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Re:Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B by rahoulb on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @08:04AM (#27367679)
I've always felt one of the fallacies of the startup culture that we surround ourselves in is that winning involves "taking over the world".

There are so many "niche" businesses out there - that will be enough to bring in millions in revenue - simply because there is such a variety in what people want and need. And we'll never hear of them unless our interests happen to coincide with that particular niche.

Case in point - I've just started working for a company that is an upstart small player in the area of document management for construction companies. You'd think document management was a solved problem and there wouldn't be room for specialists in that area - but no, there are several multi-million dollar businesses that do nothing but. And there's still room for small companies like ours to grow into.

Re:Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B by wintermutestwin on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:58AM (#27369443)
Interesting that you used the term "document management" as opposed to "content management." I cut my teeth as a "document management" consultant in the early 90s, when it was really just documents. I thought the "content management" term took over.
Re:Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B by rahoulb on Thursday June 03, 2021 @03:22AM (#27378140)
For this niche it is specifically document management - CAD drawings, PDFs and MS Office files.