Comments on: Always Play Offense http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/ Entrepreneurial Leadership and Management . . . and Other Stuff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Cannibalize Yourself « 2-Speed http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/#comment-2879 Cannibalize Yourself « 2-Speed Mon, 21 May 2007 17:50:30 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/#comment-2879 [...] Your market is full of competition, even if you don’t see it, it’s there, lurking in the shadows waiting to attack.  To make things worse, with almost no barriers to entry in any market these days (including capital equipment), a new competitor can spring up overnight.  Only by being aggressive - rolling out constant improvements and new, replacement products - can you retain or grow your market share and keep competitors at bay.  Always play offense. [...] [...] Your market is full of competition, even if you don’t see it, it’s there, lurking in the shadows waiting to attack.  To make things worse, with almost no barriers to entry in any market these days (including capital equipment), a new competitor can spring up overnight.  Only by being aggressive - rolling out constant improvements and new, replacement products - can you retain or grow your market share and keep competitors at bay.  Always play offense. [...]

]]> By: Anxiety and Fear - Use It or Lose It « 2-Speed http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/#comment-1463 Anxiety and Fear - Use It or Lose It « 2-Speed Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:56:12 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/#comment-1463 [...] in your negative emotions, you’ll just feed right back into them, making them worse.  Always play offense, it’s terrific [...] [...] in your negative emotions, you’ll just feed right back into them, making them worse.  Always play offense, it’s terrific [...]

]]> By: Shawn Broderick http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/#comment-211 Shawn Broderick Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:37:49 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/#comment-211 I always liked Paul Graham's mosquito analogy in http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html "A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but a mosquito is designed for one thing: to score. No energy is wasted on defense. The defense of mosquitoes, as a species, is that there are a lot of them, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito." Shawn I always liked Paul Graham’s mosquito analogy in http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

“A startup is like a mosquito. A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but a mosquito is designed for one thing: to score. No energy is wasted on defense. The defense of mosquitoes, as a species, is that there are a lot of them, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito.”

Shawn

]]> By: Ken Bado http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/#comment-206 Ken Bado Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:19:25 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2007/03/always-play-offense/#comment-206 Spot on Will! Could not have put it better myself. Spot on Will!
Could not have put it better myself.

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