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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by petercooper on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @09:53AM (#399513)
Would you rather buy something that isn't too good but is marketed well? Or something that's awesome but poorly marketed?
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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by kirubakaran on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @11:10AM (#399591)
IMHO this is a false dichotomy.

Anyway, I understood your original point to be "Fortune favors the brave" and I replied that this is cool because I can compete with my big brass balls ;-) I don't necessarily have to be as smart as my competitors.

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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by petercooper on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @12:20PM (#401141)
Oh totally, it's cool for people who are in that camp :) Not sure it's so good for the world as a whole though. There are plenty of stories of shy, retiring mathematicians and scientists who have done great work only to be ignored.
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