Comments on: What carries you up will also bring you down

By: My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog

My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:30:06 +0000

[...] at customer learning than their larger competitors and more flexible in their thinking (“What carries you up will also bring you down”). Entrepreneurs are prone to burying this advantage in an effort to emulate late-stage firms. [...]

By: Daily Links for October 16th through October 22nd | Akkam's Razor

Daily Links for October 16th through October 22nd | Akkam's Razor — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:01:07 +0000

[...] What carries you up will also bring you down — cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog – In every case you can find the one sentence or paragraph that describes their unique business model advantage. It could be their unique distribution system or the retailing model. It’s the factor that accounts for their success. It turns out the factor that explains their success at the beginning is what accounts for their failure later. [...]

By: Phaedrus

Phaedrus — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:51:07 +0000

I call it, ” Your greatest strength shall be your greatest weakness and that day you would have lived a lifetime” rule.

Of course, those who have experienced it can vouch for it.

By: What carries you up will also bring you down | Igniting Startups - nPost

What carries you up will also bring you down | Igniting Startups - nPost — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:19:10 +0000

[...] From cdixon.org [...]

By: Phaedrus

Phaedrus — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:51:07 +0000

I call it, ” Your greatest strength shall be your greatest weakness and that day you would have lived a lifetime” rule.

Of course, those who have experienced it can vouch for it.

By: chris dixon

chris dixon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:52:36 +0000

In theory perhaps…

By: ShanaC

ShanaC — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:33:41 +0000

I'm doing an art experiment on this point, I think that “open” versus closed model is actually more confusing- It seems like the zen simplicity of twitter makes it easier to fragment oneself right now…

By: Aristotle’s concept “fatal flaw” and how it relates to corporate judo– chris dixon’s blog « ecpm blog

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:27:47 +0000

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By: Adrian Ionel

Adrian Ionel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:34:42 +0000

Is it possible Google's strength lies less in “uber-engineering” and more in a 'scientific' approach to building and running a business for the long term? Question everything, test, measure, learn, iterate. Applied it to all aspects of their business not just engineering. In theory this should allow them to embrace change.

By: Andy Zhao

Andy Zhao — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:24:33 +0000

good article – this is what I call human gravity factor, because people tend to stick to same principles that brought them success/pride before without knowing time or context has changed.