"....all the media exposure and growth opportunities that naturally follow all as a result of a magical 'introduction.'"
Sadly, "magical introductions" often get in the way of the best products rising to the top, or even having a fair shot to begin in a lot of cases. Vine is a perfect example where a product was acquired by Twitter before even launching, but as a result when Vine launches it is instantly dubbed the "Instagram of Video" in every news outlet. See the Google News search result for Instagram of Video.
I wrote a post about this phenomenon here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049409. I call it the "magical introduction" in my post, I quote:
"....all the media exposure and growth opportunities that naturally follow all as a result of a magical 'introduction.'"
Sadly, "magical introductions" often get in the way of the best products rising to the top, or even having a fair shot to begin in a lot of cases. Vine is a perfect example where a product was acquired by Twitter before even launching, but as a result when Vine launches it is instantly dubbed the "Instagram of Video" in every news outlet. See the Google News search result for Instagram of Video.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...