Jolicloud, the netbook and web services-focused operating system by Netvibes founder Tariq Krim, has finally launched with an official version 1.0 release.
With Netvibes, Krim managed to create a personalized startup page site with a massive widget (or web application) ecosystem. In many ways, Netvibes acted as an online operating system — bringing access to services like Twitter and Facebook into one convenient location.
With Netvibes, Krim managed to create a personalized startup page site with a massive widget (or web application) ecosystem. In many ways, Netvibes acted as an online operating system — bringing access to services like Twitter and Facebook into one convenient location.
There are three strikes against the company.
First strike: the startup enters an extremely competitive existing market - ultra–portable web devices, e.g. netbooks, tablets, and, potentially, phones.
Second strike: the market is dominated by deep–pocketed players like Apple, Google, and Microsoft, willing to play a "war of attrition" game.
Third strike: the product that the startup offers doesn't bring to the market a significant (10X) change in user experience and/or performance.
In short, it's a classical "better mousetrap" innovation that has very low chances to succeed. Really unfortunate.
tags: moustrap, innovation, 4q diagram, example, startup
No comments:
Post a Comment