When a big competitor decides to copy you, they've conceded to you the right to determine how steep a hill they have to chase you up.
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Facebook may be the outlier. (In regards to Snapchat)
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That may well be. Especially in a domain where winning depends on social gimmicks rather than solving hard technical problems.
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It looks like a social gimmick now, but once you start integrating advertising (video & other) it gets hard and where FB is #1
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Except for Zuck. Zuck copies too fast and too well. I saw that at Twitter and now seeing from afar with Snap. He's the new Gates and it's

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Yes, FB is the most conspicuous exception.
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they can copy what you've built, not what you're going to build
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if they are smart, they analyze the shortcomings of the current innovation and offer an improved, better version
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(as Peter Drucker wrote, the original innovator should aim to be so far ahead that he can lower prices before others enter the segment)
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Um, isn't copying successful businesses that refused to sell now a major strategy of our monopolistic tech companies?
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Microsoft is/was a copying kind of company... worked out pretty well so far.
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Not if you talking about Eastern companies in general
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Use speed not caltrops
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if they're big enough, they can both copy you and innovate on their own
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Unfortunately, if they're big enough that can make your life very difficult
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the fact they have diverted so much of their resources towards copying suggests they are losing sight of creating their own unique identity.
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Your words make it seem so possible. I needed to believe that atleast, cause in today's time when real results of insta-snap are coming out.
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Logically, it seems that innovation will no longer be enough to build a great Internet consumer co. Power too concentrated to believe that.
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it depends on how much the "copy" differs from their existing suite of products and what bigger means. More users, $$, etc...
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