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Niche can be a Competitive Advantage

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I have been a niche player all of my life. I choose small markets and learn to be dominant in them. I prefer to be big in a small market. Working in a niche allows focus on specialties. The more you do of the same specialty, the easier, cheaper and faster you get. As I grow, the niches get bigger and bigger.

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Good Business Needs an Angle

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Something that you have competitive advantage in. I repeatedly push businesses to have competitive advantage. But if your offering is unique or niche, it becomes more of a battle for value. The ideal angle is something your business can uniquely do.

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Elevate

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Choose what strategies have competitive advantage (I am big on competitive advantage and view it as the cornerstone to success). He then quickly moves into his 3 disciplines. First - Coalesce - fusing together insights to create an innovative business model. Second - Compete. And execute the strategy. (I

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Execution Businesses

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Some businesses have such barriers to entry and such competitive advantage that they can still thrive even with poor execution. 4 - Look for areas of minor competitive advantage. My work ethic was a competitive advantage. EMJ was an execution business. Track which message gets the most meetings.

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World Innovation Forum - The Pressure to be Insightful

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And polishing strengths is a great way to gain competitive advantage. And increasingly I realize that one of my primary strengths is creativity and ideas. I am a big believer that my greatest value happens when I spend time in my primary strength areas. The event is put on by WOBI - short for World of Business Ideas.

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And then there were 4 (Grandkids that is)

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Starting a company with a company as a co-founder would bring competitive advantage. For those interested in pursuing a career in the field, however, “Creative Anarchy” is definitely a must-read. ++ There is an interesting article on companies co-founding startups. This makes logical sense to me.

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And then there were 4 (Grandkids that is)

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Starting a company with a company as a co-founder would bring competitive advantage. For those interested in pursuing a career in the field, however, “Creative Anarchy” is definitely a must-read. ++ There is an interesting article on companies co-founding startups. This makes logical sense to me.