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The First-Mover Advantage, Explained

Hubspot

And patents and copyrights can ensure certain of these advantages are untouchable by future competitors. By the time it burst onto the scene in 2009, Uber was not the first ridesharing company, but it was the largest and most successful, beating out pioneer Sidecar for eventual market domination. First-Mover Disadvantage.

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

It was called “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the British band The Buggles and was aired at 0001 hours on August 1, 1981, the day the cable station was launched in the U.S. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Every disruptive technology is known to cause major upheavals in any industry. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc. Resources

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A Shortish History of Online Video

Vidyard

By 2005, nearly 30% of all households in the United States had “high speed” internet — using cable or DSL to access a much higher download and bandwidth rate than had been offered by telephone modems. Until Valentine’s Day, 2005. Why You Were the Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2006. Streaming Video is the New Norm.

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All your best content may now be considered fake news

Biznology

If I were conspiratorial, I might fancy this as an aggressive hearts-and-minds land-grab by the mainstream media to sell more papers and cable subscriptions, and to train us that nothing but traditional mainstream media can be trusted (and in a post Smith-Mundt Act world , who can we trust?). The real bloodbath started in 2009.

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