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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
I think about this tweet a lot. If your base assumption is that any feature innovation you come up with will be copied in two weeks — what kind of company would you build?
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Eugene Wei
@eugenewei
In SV, companies fear FB going into lockdown to clone them, but China takes it to the next level. As a CEO there told me, if a competitor doesn’t copy something we ship within two weeks we question their competence. This CH clone shipped in…two weeks from CH going viral there.
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Daniel Imfeld
@dimfeld
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Some kind of personal touch can be a big differentiator here, depending on the target market. Whether it’s great customer service, assisting in transferring old data, or helping to navigate complex issues that your customers face.
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nick bea
@beatnikpicnic
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Partial (kind of cynical) answers could be: - kind that has big lobbying arm for regulatory capture - kind that is exceedingly well funded to scale immediately and capture a network - kind that is exceedingly well funded to acquire or litigate copycats to death
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nick bea
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@ejames_c
Less cynically: - something that has a strong branding component, a 'lifestyle' brand. Look to commodities like coffee roasters for direction - On the coffee analogy again - something that has a local component. Hometown coffee shop (app) vs Starbucks
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