Today's Niche Data Masters Are Tomorrow's Billionaires

I was interviewed today for a piece at the eCommerce Times about Amazon acquiring travel search engine [i use search engine very loosely here] Side Step. Normally I don't point to stuff I'm quoted in but I said something today that I've been thinking about for some time and just haven't told anyone publicly. It's no big secret or anything but it's something you can't afford to ignore if you're bootstrapping a startup or work at an internet company [small or large, it doesn't matter].

"Small nimble startups are able to master these niches in ways the big players like Amazon can't," Dowdell said. "Then they get snapped up by the big guys because it's easier to buy a great data-centric technology company than build one."

Read between the lines my friends, read between the lines. My team and I are up to something big, very big, and we will not falter.