on competition
by sari · updated 4mo ago
on competition
- I've been asked many times some variation of the question "how do you deal with the competition?" There are many answers to this question; in this essay, I want to give one: wait until they die .
from Befriending the Goon Squad · Applied Cartography
sari added 4mo ago
Escape Competition Through Authenticity
sari added 5mo ago
- More heads down, less looking around.
from You only compete with one thing
sari added 8mo ago
I love this re-framing of competition by Jason Fried: “When it comes to business, I've always preferred the term "alternative" to "competitor" when addressing other options in the market.”
- ‘Do not try to be the best. Be the only.’ It helps me believe in a positive-sum world—where my success does not hinge on the failure of others, and I am not in a rat-race.” — Nishant Jain
from The Best Advice I've Ever Heard by Caroline Cala Donofrio
sari added 8mo ago
Cirque du Soleil succeeded because it realized that to win in the future, companies must stop competing with each other. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.
from Blue Ocean Strategy by Renee Mauborgne
sari added 8mo ago
Brian at Reforge says: One of my strong beliefs is that startups should rarely think about competitors and most should think about alternatives. Alternatives are the other ways your target audience are solving the problem today. If you focus on competitors, you are likely to make three critical mistakes: 1. You Will Lack Differentiation - When comp
... See moresari added 8mo ago
- Play your own game where no one can compete with you
from #07 - Erik Torenberg thinks we should build career moats by Tony Sheng
sari added 8mo ago
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
sari added 8mo ago
never badmouth your competition. it makes you look insecure.
sari added 8mo ago
- The ultimate competitive advantage is actually giving a shit about the problem you're working on. When Airbnb had just a few dozen employees, Rocket Internet raised $90 million and hired hundreds of people to clone and crush them.
from Tweet by Stew Fortier
sari added 8mo ago