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to defensibility
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The state or quality of being defensible
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Piantino sees Spell's model as the key to defensibility.
So having a line of sight to defensibility matters, even for early-stage investing.
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But if you're able to move past competitive advantages to true defensibility — to really being able to protect your business from competition — your value grows exponentially.
In the old days, the business literature listed many ways to create defensibility: unique access to raw materials, favorable geographic location, government regulations like tariffs, patents and licenses, etc. Network effects have emerged as the native defense in the digital world.
This tends to be the exception rather than the rule, however, which means most machine learning startups need to look to partnerships or large customers to achieve defensibility and scale.
The time horizon of the algorithm's prediction is critical to its usefulness and to whether it offers an opportunity to build defensibility.
Which means that building a human-focused, relationship-driven personalization platform actually provides for a tangible differentiator against Amazon — one of the few ways to effectively compete against the giant (and, perhaps more importantly, one of the few ways to build defensibility in a commerce segment traditionally dependent on "brand" as its only de facto moat).
That way of thinking about business and product design puts you on the road to true defensibility and massive impact and value creation.
The other key to its defensibility is that the team has built its own hardware sensors that measure the biosignals used in its tests, sensors which Schafer tells us are patent-pending.
Prior to 1847, Detroit fought to maintain the capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had many reasons for wanting a move inland, including the need to increase defensibility by moving the state government away from the Canadian border.
But Uber's competition is a tap away, and thus it needs to refine its products to build more defensibility.
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