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Competition is for losers

Intelligent SMEs: A quiet, top-down messaging nudges SMEs toward competition, when they should be aiming for monopoly.

Nathan Smith
Fri, 22 Sep 2017

When SMEs start up, the contrarian but rarely spoken advice is to aim for monopoly and avoid competition entirely.

Competition is for losers, says billionaire startup owner and investor Peter Thiel. While people think of losers as those who aren’t good at competing, the reality is only two kinds

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Nathan Smith
Fri, 22 Sep 2017
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