You only compete with one thing
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You only compete with one thing
Of course, we should also keep in mind "do not compete for the sake of competition". Sometimes, after a prolonged period of competition, the only goal becomes simply beating the competitor. For example, in the Microsoft-Google competition, Microsoft for a long time saw defeating Google as its goal, and invested heavily in search. It wasn't until a
... See morefrom Zhang Yiming’s Last Speech: Part II by Zhang Yiming
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- 54:00 - It's always a challenge to see further down than 6 months along the road because you don't always know what the platform is working on and what they are going to do. They have their own competitive forces to deal with. So you hope, "Hey I hope my niche isn't too interesting to them, that they want to take it over. But interesting enough tha... See more
from Platforms with Joe Wadcan // Metamuse podcast episode 63 by Mark McGranaghan
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“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
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- There is an all out war for search supremacy right now between two trillion dollar companies, with one having everything to win and the other everything to lose. In those circumstances a standard VC model of buying growth does not work even if you have a huge war chest, as you will be outspent no matter how big your investors are.
As a founder of a ... See morefrom Article
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If our biggest competitor copied every single feature we have, how would we still win?
from Extreme Questions to Trigger New, Better Ideas by Jason Cohen
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- we have to compete with the biggest and the best in each category of content we produce. But no, we don't need to BE them to compete with them. In fact, I'd posit there is no objective or academic way to declare something like a newsletter or a podcast or an expert or a brand as "the best." Everyone is making subjective, emotional decisions, then r... See more
from The Idea Impact Matrix: How to Craft Higher-Impact Content (Part 1) by Jay Acunzo
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- Your competitors are the most successful tech companies in the world, who have enormous war chests of cash, with an in-built hardware advantage, who can use audio as a loss leader for their existing products and services. I’m comfortable with this risk because this has been the case for years now, and Spotify through focus and execution has maintai... See more
from Why I'm Buying by Jackie Vullinghs
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When the balance skews towards Compete , it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. The vision for the future devolves into questions like, "what if we had more users?" and "what if we just did more stuff?" This mindset drives products to become big, complex messes of features, leaving you wondering, "who asked for all this?" You end up wit
... See morefrom The Cost of Craft by George Kedenburg III
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