"There's a huge first mover advantage" in any market, Professor Sager said, since the industry is less concentrated and there are fewer bad precedents.
"DoubleClick is well on its way to establishing themselves as the leading Internet advertising services company out there, with a great technology (DART), a huge first mover advantage, a critical mass of advertisers and Web publishers, and some great new products that are well timed to take advantage of the most important trend in Internet advertising today: targeting," says Reamer.
That's a huge first-mover advantage and reflects our strength in financial services historically.
Sparks fly on the steel girders of the new factories going up on all sides, as huge earth-movers lay out new highways.
A survey earlier this year by the National Association of Manufacturers found that only one-third of American manufacturers were using the Internet to sell or to procure products or services.A second point is that, contrary to one of its early myths, the Internet does not seem to offer huge "first-mover" advantages.
"This is not the type of company I typically recommend, but there is a huge first-mover advantage in developing vaccines," said Sharon Seiler, a securities analyst at Punk, Ziegel & Company, which helped VaxGen go public when it was spun off from Genentech in 1995.
"We have a huge first-mover advantage".
"There is a huge first-mover advantage to be had at this moment in time.
Huge first-mover advantage has existed for HFT firms, but such advantage has been disappearing quickly in the presence of intense competition.
"In the short term the venture may only have a small impact on earnings accretion, but it gives them a huge first-mover advantage in a market that may be shifting away from vertical integration," says Gomberg.
