Re:What's the offline equivalent to your online startup?
by columbo on Monday July 16, 2012 @09:55AM
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Guesses (and probably not good ones)
Dropbox: P.O. Box? You can send almost anything to it but only X people have access (whoever has a key)
GitHub: Science Publication? Where everything is typically based off prior research and people can choose to "Fork" previous research to publish a new concept
Klout: Diner's Club Card? Masons/Lyons clubs?
Bottlenose: TV Guide?
Just taking stabs... it is an interesting question but I agree I'm not sure what the benefits are for being able to relate directly to an "offline" concept.
I suppose one benefit is if you really can say "We are like TV Guide for the Internet" then you can use that to help you make decisions (what did TV Guide do right and wrong).
Re:What's the offline equivalent to your online startup?
by laurencei on Monday July 16, 2012 @07:34AM
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Offline equivalent of Dropbox is a usb key you carry around with you everywhere you go.
Re:What's the offline equivalent to your online startup?
by CaveTech on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:42AM
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Except you can't use the USB key in two places at once.
Re:What's the offline equivalent to your online startup?
by lars512 on Monday July 16, 2012 @11:49AM
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The offline equivalent is just how people achieved something similar beforehand. It's ok for it to be worse. I think the USB key is just right for Dropbox's offline equivalent.
Having people used to a certain concept and then migrating that concept to the web contributes a lot to the success of a product. It saves you the trouble of introducing abstract concepts to the average user, which could be sometimes troublesome.
However the generalization of this observation is incorrect, it is inaccurate and should not be used as a rule to define a good product and\or startup.