Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
by alephnerd on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:38AM
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> that large businesses constantly competed by other businesses and either
Not exactly. Ideally, you want to use market and persona segmentation to develop a partial oligopoly.
The nature of sales cycles and the fact that only a minority of organizations (F1000) represent the majority of spend, means that you essentially have 2-3 large players in an single segment, and maybe a couple smaller players that will eventually be acquired.
Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
by BurningFrog on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:14PM
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2-3 large players and a few smaller ones is a decent amount of competition. Vastly more than a government has.
Oligopols are less competition than ideal, but much better than nothing.
The difference is that large businesses constantly competed by other businesses. This either keeps them effective enough to compete, or they get replaced with more functional ones.
The accumulated dysfunction in a 20-50 year old company is large, but on a whole different scale than a 250 year old government.