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Companies Build “Capabilities” Before They Build “Moats”
And while competence may be the ultimate competitive advantage to an individual, it is the property of the individual, not the company.
reactionwheel.net • A Taxonomy of Moats | Reaction Wheel
In business, there is this idea of the moat: the advantage that one business has over their competitors. If the blockchain and AI take hold, those moats will no longer be data and content creation. Which seems like a bad thing–but what’s left? From my perspective as a nascent entrepreneur, future moats fall into three broad categories: proprietary ... See more
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
Among billion-dollar startups, only 8 percent had no defensibility factor—but over 45 percent in the group of random startups lacked specific defensibility. This shows the importance of having strong moats around a company and was another strong difference I observed in the data.