"With the arrival of Schwartz, who's long been a champion of open source, you can see they are trying to build a defensible business model," said Brian Behlendorf, chief technology officer at CollabNet, one of the earliest Java developers.
The trend with FX [foreign exchange] is it will go very low, or zero, and I think the bank of the future needs to offer FX at basically zero, but it's very hard to build a defensible model around zero price, because once you have, where do you go?" Where you go is where the distinction between plans and possibilities comes in.
So, the co-founders (and cousins) decided to focus on raising money from investors that could help them build a defensible business model in Brazil, no easy feat in spite of the growing national interest in eCommerce.
But that means it also has to build a defensible data set for the company that makes it able to outmaneuver other competitors like Trunk Club, and that requires a lot of feedback from its user base.
The aims of using evidence to guide practice are to build a defensible body of clinical professional knowledge, and use the best available evidence to support effective practice in patient care [ 4].
There's also a strong security element to that, and all of this requires heavy technical expertise to build something pretty defensible, Yuen said.
Q: How do you build up a defensible business so that you're not one of many startups fighting for a piece of market share?
GiftRocket opened doors when it shifted to a more universal use case, although it still faces competition from PayPal (via its Send Money app) and more and will need to continue beefing up its partnerships, API and affiliated services if it hopes to build a truly defensible business.
Instead, the agency needs the extra weeks to build a more defensible case for its rules, given the inevitability that someone will challenge them in court.
I find that while residential sites are generally built in more defensible places on the landscape, previously identified "defensive" sites (trench embankment sites) are not necessarily in unusually defensible places.
