2) Again, you are underestimating the effort to build a competitive spreadsheet and overestimating what intelligence or smart people are capable of achieving. First, you can take a look at the spreadsheet history and see that there was a lot of competition in computer history stages with more opportunity windows: how many developers were in the Apple/DOS era? Another important thing that you are not taking into account is the ecosystem for spreadsheets like Excel. It's not only Excel, but the whole Microsoft Office and Legacy Applications. Do you think that a Fortune 1000 company will take the risk of moving outside Excel?
3) No, just the contrary. Try yourself to gain traction with a free open source software and see how difficult it is.
4) That's what I said but it's being capitalized by a lot of people
1) Startups and small business are popping up everywhere and the majority die.
3) No, just the contrary. Try yourself to gain traction with a free open source software and see how difficult it is.
4) That's what I said but it's being capitalized by a lot of people
1) Startups and small business are popping up everywhere and the majority die.