Looking good raises personal and sector status, but someone can come and steal your thunder or undermine you, but if they fail, that can be used to your advanta

Looking good raises personal and sector status, but someone can come and steal your thunder or undermine you, but if they fail, that can be used to your advantage (they give you ideas and customers) or else one can more easily fail upwardly at that point. Reminds me of the album title: "100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong" Seeing a bunch of me-too bands could be good for Jon's ego if he can laugh at those wannabes, but alternatively being seen as niche and undiscovered might be better. For me, I think releasing numbers (of a social network) would be more about conferring legitimacy more than anything else, and secondly, increasing competition, which I think is good if you can win. Fred Wilson: "We like category creators — people who are the first to develop a company and a market — as opposed to copy cats." http://www.women2.org/a-vc-fred-wilson-talks-on-building-mobile-startups-with-founder-labs/ http://www.women2.org/a-vc-fred-wilson-talks-on-building-mob...