The Biz of Coding

Competition is A Constant, Building Imaginative products is the True Variable

by Ujwal Tickoo on July 15th, 2008

I loved this quote from a Yahoo! employee at Alan Wilensky's blog post on "Yahoo Culture - What was, is, and Could Be" (Alan's blog is creatively titled BlogWhine :) ). To repeat the original words, that I modified in the title, "Competition is a constant, and the execution of imaginative products is the true variable." This simple 1-liner captures an essential idea of great product management and I salute the un-named guy quoted in Alan's post.

You can't worry about competition too much or too little. Its a waste. Competition will always be there. But what you can do is build insanely great products that consumers would love. That will keep 'em coming. That is the only mantra. Amen.

My good-old-yahoo-friend Sridhar Ranganathan keeps coming out with witty 1-liners : "Winners take most of it" a Corollary to which was offerred by another good-old-yahoo-friend Ravindra “To Win in a Market, create the Market”. Have fun!

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