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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees by alephnerd on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:38AM (#43231480)
> 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 (#43232582)
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.