Jason Cohen (@asmartbear.com)
bsky.app
Jason Cohen (@asmartbear.com)
You can be the best product for small market, build a real company, and then from a position of strength, either stay there or attempt to expand to adjacent markets.
Or be undistictive in a huge market, out-advertised and invisible, never getting off the ground.
You should compete against what someone else could be doing, not just what you can see people doing.”
Lenny Rachitsky • Business Building - A collection on Sublime
“At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted... It's exceptionally rare for startups to be killed by competitors — so rare that you can almost discount the possibility... Inexperienced founders usually give competitors more credit than they deserve. Whether you succeed depends far more
... See moreNo one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
If our biggest competitor copied every single feature we have, how would we still win?
Jason Cohen • Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
If our biggest competitor copied every feature we have, how would we still win?