You are not Tony Stark. 500 Startups founder Dave McClure made the point quite clear during his keynote at Echelon 2013. But even if the genius behind Iron Man is cool and you are not, you can build great things on the platforms that the cool guys have been making so far. Of course, by Tony Stark, Dave is referring to guys like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. They have built great platforms with billions of users, and the question now is how can an entrepreneur take advantage of the likes of Facebook, iOS, Android and Google? This is said in the context of having what is supposedly a series A crunch, especially in Silicon Valley. We are at an era when there are a lot of new startups, and a handful of seed investments, but there is the supposed cliff: what happens when you need more money, but there is just too much competition?
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