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created: 2021-07-23 Fri
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# Business Strategy and Competition
A map of topics around competition between businesses, strategy, moats.
## Analysis tools
[[Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - The Difference and Why It Matters (Richard Rumelt)]] - my notes on this excellent book.
[[Strategy Frameworks]]
[[Five Forces framework]]
[[PEST or PESTLE Analysis]]
[[Embodied Strategy]]
## Trends
[[web3, speculative bubbles and promises of decentralisation]]
[[In the short term the stock market is a voting machine]]
## Lock-in
[[Network Effects]]
[[Social media gamification and addictiveness]]
[[Vendor Lock-in]]
[[Vendor Lock-in and Public Cloud Platforms]]
[[Non-Compete Clauses]]
[[Create a platform instead of a product]]
[[Protecting your platform from competition]]
[[Competitive Compliance]]
[[Regulatory Arbitrage]]
## Freshness vs staleness
[[Second System Syndrome or Effect]]
## Staffing factors
[[Non-Compete Clauses]]
[[Anti-Poaching Clauses]]
[[Costs of switching employers]]
[[Golden Handcuffs]]
## Favouring larger companies
[[Competitive Compliance]]
[[Regulatory Arbitrage]]
[[The legal system isn't a level playing field]]
[[Patents and Competition]]
[[Non-Compete Clauses]]
[[Lobbying]]
[[Regulatory Capture]]
## Tricky huh
[[Risk-seeking incentives]]
[[Heuristics That Almost Always Work]]
[[How organisations are like slime mould]]
[[Embodied Strategy]]