This is relevant now with AI startups and incumbents. Have your strategy or die. IOW, focus on the application layers.
For current industries or new market categories:
-Identify your problem-solution fit. Make sure it's unique.
-Have deep knowledge of your customers, data, business, and market. Leverage it.
- Have a Trojan horse strategy in your market category.
- Have and own a patent family asset. Build a total IP strategy. Including brand, trademarks, and trade secrets. This is power.
-Craft a smart embedding strategy that's tied to infrastructure.
-Identify and protect your unfair competitive advantages. Have an ocean view moat.
-Develop channel partner relationships with iconic brands and influencers.
-Anticipate what the incumbents will do when you strike.
- From Sun Tzu- Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy not coming, but on our readiness to receive him, not on the chance of his not attacking, but on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Great drill down:
This is relevant now with AI startups and incumbents. Have your strategy or die. IOW, focus on the application layers.
For current industries or new market categories:
-Identify your problem-solution fit. Make sure it's unique.
-Have deep knowledge of your customers, data, business, and market. Leverage it.
- Have a Trojan horse strategy in your market category.
- Have and own a patent family asset. Build a total IP strategy. Including brand, trademarks, and trade secrets. This is power.
-Craft a smart embedding strategy that's tied to infrastructure.
-Identify and protect your unfair competitive advantages. Have an ocean view moat.
-Develop channel partner relationships with iconic brands and influencers.
-Anticipate what the incumbents will do when you strike.
- From Sun Tzu- Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy not coming, but on our readiness to receive him, not on the chance of his not attacking, but on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.