<story><title>How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-website-copy-machine#p1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedc</author><text>Yes, they&apos;re copycats.&lt;p&gt;But those of us who live in Europe sometimes get absolutely &lt;i&gt;infuriated&lt;/i&gt; by US-based startups who go for years ignoring potential non-US customers.  I&apos;m sure Fab.com would have eventually rolled out to Europe, but in the meantime I&apos;m happy that someone else built a product that solves the same problem.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this is a real regulatory problem, like anything to do with banking/payments/etc.  But oftentimes it&apos;s just because businesses don&apos;t seem to like taking on the extra work/complexity of thinking internationally.&lt;p&gt;So while I don&apos;t like their pure copycat methods (down to page layouts), I think they&apos;re serving a valuable purpose in the marketplace.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-website-copy-machine#p1</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>itmag</author><text>&lt;i&gt;“There are pioneering entrepreneurs and execution entrepreneurs, and maybe we belong more to the execution entrepreneurs,” says Oliver, who speaks at a rapid clip, frequently punctuating thoughts with a rhetorical “ja?”&lt;p&gt;“I think the most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja? It’s a unique gift that you either have or you don’t. Just as we might have a very good gift of execution, others have a unique gift for the purest form of innovation.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The constant mantra of HN is &quot;ideas are useless, execution is everything&quot;. So why the hate against these guys?</text></comment>