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Here's a formula for success:

    1 - Figure out what tech the hardcore technorati snubs.  
    2 - Note the subset of this which has mainstream traction.
    3 - Implement something with value (while the techie snobs
        look on in disdain)
    4 - Succeed
Who has used this strategy? YouTube. (Which is why I couldn't say "Profit.")


Util you can say profit, your definition of success is going to be somewhat shaky.


I would still like to have had the success of YouTube. And I bet if you look hard enough, you'll find some niche where someone has followed those steps, but with #4 - Profit!


Who are those hardcore technorati and where do they bash Youtube?


I was one. Everyone who could've been YouTube, were it not for the fact that they disdained Flash Video and were looking at a "more elegant technology."




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