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Originally Posted by Relentless
who the new people are with fresh ideas.
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(disclaimer: I'm a 2003 GFY user) You mean old timers can not have fresh ideas? And new timers are all so fresh?
Some people gets fresh ideas because they adapt fast, get fresh ideas often across whole life, when old timer and old age too.
Other people gets no fresh ideas ever, either when new or old timer, young or old age.
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Originally Posted by ITraffic
many new traditional paysite affiliates? no. those monetizing "free" content with cams, dating and ad networks? plenty.
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Free cams is no more a fresh idea, it was in 2010, max 2011 (when chaturbate etc's it was launched).
About fresh ideas: these are copied at lightspeed anyway, so what's the value for who had the idea? Fresh idea's are worth nothing for the inventor, if everyone else can implement the same (as soon as inventor released his thing), with bigger investment (or "traffic", for our biz).
This is valid for every fresh idea you can't make exclusive to you with patents, licenses or other barriers to entry: big guys keep an eye on fresh idea (smaller) guys's work - big guys understand it may be the next thing - but will wait last minute before to release the own copy of fresh idea. Why? Because big guy make $$ with the old idea! So launching the new idea too soon (with own big advertising base) may self-cannibalize too soon the own old (but still core) business.
So, while the fresh idea guy thinks no one is really copying him yet, really big guys prepared the new idea's clone, just wait the new idea's inventor's business to become enough big to be dangerous or recognised as a brand, and at that moment only, the big guys launch own copy version - with big fanfare & ads. Result: most people will think the old guys really are the inventors (lots of people think cell phones was invented by Apple rather than by Motorola, same for Facebook<-MySpace or Google<-Altavista). Same will do other big guys. So own inventor's thing will be 2nd , 3rd, 4th and even out of business - most people will think the big guys invented the idea, and anyway give their money to big guys.
Never understimate the oldtimers.