[This consumer is not out in front, far from it. This consumer is] part of the herd. They're word-of-mouth creatures, ... They're asking their friends and colleagues, 'Are you using the camera on your cellphone yet? Me, neither.' But if they ask around and people say, 'Yeah, I use it all the time,' then they'll rethink and try it out. -Geoffrey Moore

 

[This consumer is not out in front, far from it. This consumer is] part of the herd. They're word-of-mouth creatures, ... They're asking their friends and colleagues, 'Are you using the camera on your cellphone yet? Me, neither.' But if they ask around and people say, 'Yeah, I use it all the time,' then they'll rethink and try it out.


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[This consumer is not out in front, far from it. This consumer is] part of the herd. They're word-of-mouth creatures, ... They're asking their friends and colleagues, 'Are you using the camera on your cellphone yet? Me, neither.' But if they ask around and people say, 'Yeah, I use it all the time,' then they'll rethink and try it out.

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We were thinking about scale instead of liquidity, ... The correct move now is to redirect the race toward liquidity.

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There is no new technology in the iPod. -Geoffrey Moore
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The companies founded two or three years ago have been struggling with the assumption that follow-on investments would be as easy to get as the initial funding. They're not getting [the follow-on] funding, and so they're telling people that VCs don't want to spend. We do, but more on the traditional companies missed during the dot-com bubble.

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They're thinking, 'If I or my organization were to adopt this new technology, how would it change our competitiveness?'

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And the number of ISVs is meaningless. The issue is what the power players are doing. Cisco and Microsoft have the strongest positions, so a solution that doesn't have their endorsement isn't likely to get very far. -Geoffrey Moore
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When I go meet with a company that's No. 1--a Microsoft or Cisco or SAP--one of the things I hear a lot is how mean it is out there. Being No. 1 these days means you become the natural target.

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