Re: No Shit Sherlock
I've yet to work at a tech company in the SaaS/web/... area where there was actual IP to rip off in the technology area. Frankly, often, competitors had objectively better tech than where I worked. It is mostly branding, marketing muscle, stuff like that that makes you win and I think that that's where Sillycon Valley differs from European efforts: the realization that throwing lots of money at marketing, sales and biz dev makes the difference.
No, the franchise idea won't fly because of all the tech debt: no way that another company can host the, let's say it nicely, somewhat organically grown software that got written. Didn't MS try it with Deutsche Telekom?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
