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The First-Mover Advantage, Explained

Hubspot

This kind of head start has a name: first-mover advantage. What is the first-mover advantage? The first-mover advantage describes companies that are first to market, which gives them a competitive advantage over other companies, resources, or technologies that follow. First-Mover Advantage Examples.

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Fostering Innovation: Why You Need It and How to Get More of It

Webbiquity

From the very first automobile to the first mobile phone and the current explosion of AI and its capabilities , innovation is the cornerstone of wealth creation. A great example of this is BlackBerry, which is credited with developing the first smartphone. We’d have fewer companies like OpenAI, and more like Blockbuster.

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What vertical networks mean for the future of social media

Sprout Social

But first, what are vertical networks? Co-founded by Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow in 2011, the platform is home to both cinephiles and casual viewers who use it for recommendations from friends and Letterboxd influencers. Since launching in 2011, Nextdoor has expanded its presence into more than 285,000 neighborhoods globally.

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How B2B Companies Are Using LinkedIn Marketing Ad Campaigns [Interview]

KoMarketing Associates

First, anyone using LinkedIn ads should have a good understanding of their buyer personas. Having said that, in the other direction, it’s perhaps even more surprising that the percentage was lowest for the B2B Software/SaaS industry, which I would have thought would be first-movers with LinkedIn ads. About Jordan Con.

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How to Become a Household Name

Hubspot

Why it Caught on: A huge part of YouTube’s widespread popularity is its first-mover advantage -- it was one of the first video hosting sites ever founded, and after Google purchased it in 2006, it started growing rapidly. Why it Caught on: Unlike YouTube and Photoshop, Google wasn’t among the first of its kind.

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The Personal Network Effect Makes Walled Gardens Stronger, But There's Still Hope

Customer Experience Matrix

The first is the “personal network effect” that I’ve described previously. As with any network, personal networks hold a big first mover advantage: whichever provider first sells several apps to the same consumer has a good, and ever-growing, chance of becoming that consumer's primary network.

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1 Billion Facebook Users in 2012? Not So Fast

Biznology

In 2011 Facebook announced they hit the 800 million mark in September. It’s a first mover that is eventually going to run up against its limits. That means that the social media giant needs to grow by 25% before the end of 2012 in order to hit the 1 billion mark. Facebook doesn’t compete. It steamrolls.