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plussed_reader
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How the Frightful Five Put Startups in a Lose-Lose...
For a lot of users it was their first SMS to Web interface.
icebraining
on Oct 19, 2017
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Right, but that's not an innovation.
ksk
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Okay, maybe that's not YOUR definition of innovation.
I personally like this one:
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/innovation.html
icebraining
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Is there any product that wouldn't fit that definition?
ksk
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Products that are clones of other successful products. Which is tens of millions of products. There aren't many industries with single vendors. I think the definition perfectly captures how most people think about innovation.
KGIII
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It might not be much of an invention, but it is an innovation.
icebraining
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So if I make a clone of some existing product and give it to users that never used that kind of product before, I'm being innovative?
KGIII
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Absolutely. Pushing a product to a new group of people is innovation. It's innovation in the business aspect, not innovative on the tech side.
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