13th
The difference between confidence and arrogance
There was a post about a semi-competitive product, voice to social network, today on TechCrunch. SimulScribe was mentioned as being in the space. I did a quick post in the comment section with a free 30 day trial link because I am always looking for opportunities to get customers and felt this was a good one. Later in the day a employee of our competitor Spinvox who is in both markets (Voicemail to text as well as voice to social blog) wrote an incredible arrogant post about Spinvox and how they are the “commercial leader”. If you read his post I think that you would agree that in a industry as small and young as voicemail to text with such little overall global revenue (total global market is less then $10 million annual) you want to be careful in how you proclaim dominance. Additionally we have always been rated by the press ahead of Spinvox in quality and consumer functionality which to me is all that matters. But the thing that made me actually respond to this guy is how he threw into the post that Spinvox has raised over $100 million. All I can say is that in my experience it is not always the best funded company that wins so it always urks me when I see start-ups that do huge raises using that as a competitive advantage. To me it comes off as arrogance and that is not something that attracts people to your business. Spinvox, if I may make a suggestion I recommend that you be a little more humble, there is still a long road ahead of us before this this becomes the billion dollar industry we are all betting it will be.
