Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In sum, digital strategies and rapid technological obsolescence increases the mortality rates among existing public firms, but does not correspondingly increase the demand for IPOs. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

IPO 10

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

But a new study shows that no amount of buzz, excitement or first mover's advantage will lead a product to sustained growth. In business, we too often forget that what we are selling is value: we instead try to sell technology, or packaging, or just plain vaporware. At least that is the conventional wisdom.

First-mover Advantage 15

First-mover Advantage Venture Capitalist Dunning Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8