The hottest Competitive advantage Substack posts right now

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Crowdsourced Content and Platforms’ Competitive Advantage

Platform Papers • 19 implied HN points • 04 Jul 23
💼 Business Platform Competitive advantage Online Communities Strategies
  1. Crowdsourced content can be of high quality and variety, offering platforms a low-cost resource.
  2. Leveraging 'the crowd' for competitive advantage is challenging due to the need for platform management and direction.
  3. Platform competition and contributor activity intertwine, with success, community size, social benefits, and high-productivity contributors being key factors for a platform's competitive advantage.
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LLM Chronicles #6: How To Build Competitive Advantage In AI Startups?

Pratik’s Pakodas 🍿 • 12 implied HN points • 10 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Startups Innovations Strategies Competitive advantage Business Models
  1. Focus on building a competitive advantage in AI startups by leveraging niche markets and verticals.
  2. Consider using open-source AI models and iterating smaller models to strengthen the modeling moat.
  3. Explore value-based pricing, outcome-based pricing, and other strategies to align pricing with customer needs in AI startups.

Companies Build "Capabilities" Before They Build "Moats"

Equal Ventures • 19 implied HN points • 23 Oct 22
💼 Business Strategy Competitive advantage Organizational Design
  1. Companies need to focus on building 'capabilities' before establishing 'moats' for sustainable long-term value.
  2. Capabilities, like network effects and organizational design, are intangible assets driving competitive advantage.
  3. Understanding and actively working on developing specific capabilities is essential for building a strong competitive strategy.

2 qualities to differentiate yourself from other candidates

Austin's Analects • 0 implied HN points • 04 Nov 20
💼 Business Career development Competitive advantage
  1. Companies with a competitive advantage offer products that are valuable and unique. The same concept can apply to job applicants.
  2. To differentiate yourself in a job application, focus on being valuable by performing expected tasks and unique by engaging in activities outside expectations.
  3. Define the company's expectations, identify what makes you unique, and highlight those unique qualities to stand out from other candidates.