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Paranoid Companies Miss the Best New Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Others will now buy your travel magazine over a travel book, for example, which competes with both your magazine and the video individually. If your "competitor" isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Cross endorsement.

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Your Toughest Competitor May be Your Best Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Others will now buy your travel magazine over a travel book, for example, which competes with both your magazine and the video individually. If your "competitor" isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Cross endorsement.

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Six Good Reasons to Partner with a Competitor

Startup Professionals Musings

For “coopetition” (also called a strategic alliance) to work, companies need to very clearly define where they are working together, and where they are competing. Here is the right place to start with a good joint non-disclosure and non-compete agreement. Best of both creates a new market. Cross endorsement.

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Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps!

Occam's Razor

Every Analysis Ninja I know (not implementers, not data providers, not excel cross data store integrators – all good jobs) is very, very good at Multiplicity (answering a complex set of digital business questions using the best – often non-clickstream source). Look at non-profit entities (who have paid jobs). That is it.

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