1) Assume that product differentiation is a meaningful but small contribution to eventual success; your current edge always has an expiration date. 2) Understand your market enough to be able to say why "they just build X" isn't incentive-compatible. 3) Small steps; big vision.https://twitter.com/athyuttamre/status/1016512327720394752 …
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @patio11
Fascinating, thank you! Could you say more on 2? What does incentive-compatible mean exactly? That innovating or building what you're building isn't what the incumbents are incentivized to do?
2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @athyuttamre
This is basically the innovator's dilemma argument, but a lot of startups are producing something which is better for some niche or narrow use case but which would be inimical to the larger organization to roll out broadly, and so they'd kill attempts to build it.
2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
So you can build on that beachhead where the large organization intentionally does not attempt to contest, and from that protected position build something which actually is better for more central parts of the market, which the large organization would certainly care about.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.