YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights

Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by jbob2000 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:33PM (#8998655)

And you just pulled your design out of thin air? You woke up one day magically having this design idea without any prior influence? Please, you had your own references as well.

At my company, we routinely look at what our competitors are doing and we routinely look at ways of integrating their ideas into our product. It's not stealing, it's just business.

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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by asanwal on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:39PM (#8998708)

The CEO copied us. And admitted it. You seem to think that copying blatantly is fine. We'll agree to disagree.

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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by xtracto on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @08:52AM (#9032806)

If the only differentiator and "secret sauce" in your product is a bunch of CSS and some D3 layouts, you've got a problem.

Stop whining and start creating some real backend system and process so that you can offer real value to your customers. I bet you would love to get patents on those charts and color combinations uh?

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Re:YC startup accused of stealing design from CBInsights by jbob2000 on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @01:49PM (#8998776)

You're creating a straw man. I don't disagree that he's copied you. I disagree that it's stealing. I don't think what he did is wrong.

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