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Anna Bobbysocks
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Join date: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 373
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02-02-2006 10:14
From: Enabran Templar OMG BUT THAT WOULD BE HARD JACKAL EVERYTHING SHOULD BE EASY
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Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
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02-02-2006 10:16
From: Jackal Ennui Having established competition can have positive aspects. For instance, the new competitor knows, thanks to Enabran and other robot builders, that there actually is a market for robots in SL. He knows how much (or how little) people are prepared to pay for a robot, and what kind of features they have grown to expect for that price - and will be able to price and position his product accordingly, for example as the new budget robot, now only 50L$ and with even less features! Well, that's a benefit - but it's got a big stinger in the tail; the competitors will also be controlling that price. In the previous case of the creator with L$500k in the bank, they can respond to the new competition by giving their item away for free, or dropping it to L$10. After all, whatever happens they've got their island (or whatever) for the best part of a year, in which time they can come up with a new product, and all the work the new entrant did on their competing product will never recieve a reward, discouraging them to continue competing in the future. I'm not saying that Enabran would do that, but I've heard mention of it happening in other markets. From: someone
By watching for competitor ads, he can get a feel for what his audience could be, and how to reach them - maybe even, by a bit of clever social engineering, get to know the opinion leaders in the field of robotics and give them a free demo of his new robot. All that is a lot of valuable information for a start-up.
That's a very good idea - but it seems to carry a big risk too. The danger there is that because markets in SL are quite social, and most successful business operators in SL at least try to form a social connection with their customers, that you wind up giving that demo to a bunch of the competitor's friends who promptly pass all your new ideas back to them, and then the competitor uses their skills headstart to duplicate your product faster or better, and their marketing headstart to outsell it. I've been finding this myself; getting feedback for a new product from the community in SL seems to be a matter of walking on eggshells to prevent the risk of any information getting back to the incumbent. |
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Enabran Templar
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Join date: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,506
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02-02-2006 11:09
Run my friends, the Prophet Gloomy Murakami has brought us word of the future! We have only failure in front of us and misery behind! Go, save yourselves!
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From: Hiro Pendragon Furthermore, as Second Life goes to the Metaverse, and this becomes an open platform, Linden Lab risks lawsuit in court and [attachment culling] will, I repeat WILL be reverse in court.
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Siggy Romulus
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Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
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02-02-2006 12:28
And to all you other lifeforms out there ... the secret is to bang the rocks together!..
(Zaphod's just this guy....... You know?)
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