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Interesting, but scary. In this case it looks like an unethical and incompetent competitor. However, if they had actually followed up on the stolen strategy p
by roundsquare 17y ago
Interesting, but scary. In this case it looks like an unethical and incompetent competitor. However, if they had actually followed up on the stolen strategy properly, it might have posed a bigger problem.
- shpxnvz 17y agoI think his point was that the stolen strategy, by itself, had no value no matter now it was followed up on. His company completely ditched the strategy over the intervening months, in fact, in favor of iteratively improved ones. It seems that the only way the competitor could have properly followed up on the strategy was to use the same process to arrive at that initial strategy, and subsequently evolve it into something that actually worked… but that approach would have precluded them from having stolen the strategy in the first place.
- roundsquare 17y agot seems that the only way the competitor could have properly followed up on the strategy was to use the same process to arrive at that initial strategy, and subsequently evolve it into something that actually worked Sorry, I'm not sure I follow this reasoning. Why is it critical that they come up with the initial strategy first in order to succeed? Why wouldn't stealing the initial strategy and then evolving it work? (Obviously one consider that the people who came up with the original idea had some insight that puts them a step ahead, but, to me, that doesn't seem like it would necessarily be enough).