A Very Brief Analysis of Thiel vs. Helmer on Competitive Strategy
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I’ve been recommending Zero to One for so long now that I decided to re-read it. It’s interesting that in Chapter Five, Thiel identifies only 3.5 of Hamilton Helmer’s 7 Powers as the keys to long-term competition barriers (Helmer refers to these “Benefit/barrier combinations” as “Powers;” Thiel of course calls them “monopolies”). Thiel’s monopoly/barrier creating strategies are:
A Very Brief Analysis of Thiel vs. Helmer on Competitive Strategy
A Very Brief Analysis of Thiel vs. Helmer on…
A Very Brief Analysis of Thiel vs. Helmer on Competitive Strategy
I’ve been recommending Zero to One for so long now that I decided to re-read it. It’s interesting that in Chapter Five, Thiel identifies only 3.5 of Hamilton Helmer’s 7 Powers as the keys to long-term competition barriers (Helmer refers to these “Benefit/barrier combinations” as “Powers;” Thiel of course calls them “monopolies”). Thiel’s monopoly/barrier creating strategies are: