Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

To ensure first mover advantage, the schedule was extremely aggressive. Or begin building a capability in global innovation now to take advantage of lower development costs, faster time to market, and, most important, the ability to leverage dispersed knowledge to gain competitive advantage.

Globalization 16

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

To ensure first mover advantage, the schedule was extremely aggressive. Or begin building a capability in global innovation now to take advantage of lower development costs, faster time to market, and, most important, the ability to leverage dispersed knowledge to gain competitive advantage.

Globalization 16

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. The mantra of “ first-mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their markets, became the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8