Fortunately for startups, big companies are extremely good at denial. If you take the trouble to attack them from an oblique angle, they'll meet you half-way and maneuver to keep you in their blind spot. To sue a startup would mean admitting it was dangerous, and that often means seeing something the big company doesn't want to see.
What intrigued me was the advice in the second sentence: “If you take the trouble to attack them from an oblique angle, they'll meet you half-way and maneuver to keep you in their blind spot.” It reads frighteningly (not for companies: for Christians) like something from The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis, the advice of a senior tempter to a junior one on how to tempt a human soul to destruction.
Posted by ronlusk at April 9, 2006 05:34 PM