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8/23/2006
  After Kiko, What will Google Kill Next?

People are starting to stipulate what I said about a year ago: Google is the new Microsoft for startups.

I.e. Google must be top-of-mind competitively for any web startup.

The new awareness derives mainly from the plight of Kiko, a web 2.0 calendar app / company that went under after Google released Google Calendar.

To paraphrase some famous words of Larry Ellison, Google can cut off the oxygen of many startups. Of course, to be fair, Google created a lot of that O2 in the first place.

Here are some areas / companies Google could threaten next:

Of course the startups are not defenseless. Their primary advantage is that organizationally, Google is a gangly overgrown teenager, with all of the focus and attention span that implies. And Google ain't getting any smaller or faster.

 




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