Comments on: Fast Followers II: What Color Are Your Elephant’s Sunglasses?

By: Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell | infoChachkie

Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell | infoChachkie — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:00:45 +0000

[...] Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products. Such innovations are often focused on making products stronger, faster, smaller, lighter and cheaper. Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. You can read about the variable impact of the various forms of innovation in Fast Followers. [...]

By: A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide To Uncovering Awesome Startup Ideas

A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide To Uncovering Awesome Startup Ideas — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:21:35 +0000

[...] – what color are my elephant’s sunglasses, how I will beat the competition? To what extent are the points of differentiation [...]

By: Startups Are A Remix

Startups Are A Remix — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:02:01 +0000

[...] noted in What Color Is Your Elephant’s Sunglasses, the large majority of research and development expenditures are spent on product features (e.g., [...]

By: Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop

Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:03:28 +0000

[...] predatory pricing made it vulnerable to a new entrant. As noted in Fast Followers II, when Expertcity (acquired by Citrix) launched GoToMeeting, we devised a straightforward, easy to [...]

By: Quora

Quora — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:33:47 +0000

What are examples of markets where the second (or other later entrant) won?…

GoToMeeting was late to the market, but we kicked WebEx’s ass. Rather than trying to beat them on a features and benefits basis, we modified our pricing to “All You Can Meet” – a flat rate of $49/month. WebEx was screwing its customers with overage …

By: Fast Follower III – First Mover Disadvantage | infoChachkie

Fast Follower III – First Mover Disadvantage | infoChachkie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:58:54 +0000

[...] This is part III of a three part series. Click here for Part I and Part II [...]

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:52:11 +0000

Hello, John,

If you are going to write about Teamviewer don`t forget to say that hackers like to use it to create Trojans. Just google it and you will see.

Regards,
Sandy

By: Uncle Saul

Uncle Saul — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:16:27 +0000

Jasmin,

I have not heard of TeamViewer. Thanks for turning me onto it. My heart with is GoToMeeting, given all the work we put into it, but it is great to see other approaches to online collaboration.

A great asynchronous way to collaborate is Central Desktop (www.centraldesktop.com). This might be a good fit for TeamViewer’s users. Let me know if you would like an introduction.

Best of luck to you and the TeamViewer team.

John

By: Jasmin

Jasmin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:05:32 +0000

Hi,

have you ever heard about TeamViewer? TeamViewer is a remote control and desktop sharing solution of the TeamViewer GmbH in Germany (http://www.teamviewer.com). TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control a partners desktop to give online assistance, or you can show your screen to a customer – all without worrying about firewalls, IP addresses and NAT. TeamViewer also has a lot of other features. All this is free for personal use. Find out why more than 15.000.000 users trust TeamViewer!

All the best,
Jasmin
TeamViewer GmbH Germany