never badmouth your competition. it makes you look insecure.
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never badmouth your competition. it makes you look insecure.
if we can possibly use anything we hear against ourselves, we usually do.
Pema Chödrön • Start Where You Are: How to accept yourself and others
“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 morereliance on a vision that is solely predicated on defeating an adversary can weaken an organization long term.