{"id":175,"date":"2008-02-28T07:22:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-05-22T07:45:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T23:45:56","slug":"your-next-online-competitor-wont-be-a-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Your next online competitor won&#8217;t be a corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trademe.co.nz\">TradeMe<\/a> is New Zealands version of eBay.  It rules the roost for online auctions, has jaw-dropping margins for the company and is used by millions of New Zealanders (that is even more impressive when you consider that there&#8217;s only a population of around 4 million).<\/p>\n<p>To date it has had an unassailable lead over any competitor.  However the founder, Sam Morgan, knows where his possible threat would come from, and, surprise surprise, it won&#8217;t be from a corporate boardroom.  It will be from the fringes where people are free to experiment with ideas and business models free from big business paradigm constraints.  In a <a href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.co.nz\/news.nsf\/news\/46B3269C172CEABDCC2573FA0003E154\">recent interview he noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Any future rival to the site will probably come not from the likes of eBay, he says, but from \u201ctwo students in a scungy flat\u201d with new ideas on how to do it better.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v387\/science_boy\/Back.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to a \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TradeMe is New Zealands version of eBay. It rules the roost for online auctions, has jaw-dropping margins for the company and is used by millions of New Zealanders (that is even more impressive when you consider that there&#8217;s only a population of around 4 million). To date it has had an unassailable lead over any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes","category-strategy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}