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As with most thing balance is required, spend to long looking at competition and you will probably lose cohesion in your app as you struggle to find ways to kee
by robryan 16y ago
As with most thing balance is required, spend to long looking at competition and you will probably lose cohesion in your app as you struggle to find ways to keep up on the feature curve, don't spend enough time and you risk being late to the game on something big thats changed in your space.
- brlewis 16y agoDo you think what he says in the 3rd paragraph is the right balance? I am not suggesting that you should put your head in the sand. It is critical to know what is going on in your market. But it is equally critical to have a strategy that makes sense in the context of what is going on and execute it with purpose and pace. If you spend too much time looking over your shoulder, you will not execute well. I've seen it again and again.
- nands 16y agoRight balance is relative to your business and at what state you are in currently. For a t=0 startup, I would rather concentrate on finishing the basic feature set and launching asap rather than spending time looking around. For a business which is entering a growth stage keeping tabs on competitors and what's new makes more sense.
- robryan 16y agoI think I would define it as external events that you need to keep an eye out for. Something like being ready for the ipad launch with an app if thats your area, or moving fast on new API's such as when Facebook radically changed theres if you rely heavily on that.