On 14/06/2011, at 12:41 PM, Kate Kendall wrote:
I was recently at Aibnb HQ chatting about their "competition" and
have just read this TechCrunch piece from last week, which brought
the issue to mind again.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/airbnb/
I find the whole thing pretty fascinating. Basically, people like
the German Samwer brothers, build clones of popular North American
sites, grow a user base and then try to sell the company back to the
original. Often successfully.
Obviously we don't see it to this extent in Australia but a lot of
what we have is certainly inspired.
Trademe.co.nz, spreets, scoopon... plenty of examples here. or were
you specifically refering to selling back to the original companies?
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