My current startup has literally hundreds of competitors in a winner-takes-all market. I've also randomly run into a number of other people in SoCal who have tr

My current startup has literally hundreds of competitors in a winner-takes-all market. I've also randomly run into a number of other people in SoCal who have tried to do what we're doing (and failed to get something the market—or they, themselves—actually wants to use). It's a very simple concept, but as others have noted: execution is key. It's not the first product to market that wins, it's the first product that the market wants that wins.