Re:Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competito...
by DanielBMarkham on Sunday November 04, 2007 @10:30PM
(#76185)
Yeah it's a biz term.
Perhaps non-intuitive, but the point is that you have to figure out how you are getting customers, whether that is changing their mind from "option X" to your service, or changing their mind from "doing nothing" to your service.
Some businesses don't bother to do that work, instead just saying "I have no competition" -- I'm sure you know that you don't want to go there.
As a side note, I'm really curious as to why I was down-modded up above there. I was simply trying to share stuff I know. Don't know why it would tick anybody off. People are welcome to have different opinions, and I'd like to hear about them instead of getting down-modded. If I'm wrong, I want to know about it! (That's kinda the point of commenting to begin with)
Perhaps non-intuitive, but the point is that you have to figure out how you are getting customers, whether that is changing their mind from "option X" to your service, or changing their mind from "doing nothing" to your service.
Some businesses don't bother to do that work, instead just saying "I have no competition" -- I'm sure you know that you don't want to go there.
As a side note, I'm really curious as to why I was down-modded up above there. I was simply trying to share stuff I know. Don't know why it would tick anybody off. People are welcome to have different opinions, and I'd like to hear about them instead of getting down-modded. If I'm wrong, I want to know about it! (That's kinda the point of commenting to begin with)