Wal-Mart has learned the hard way that a first-mover advantage can be important in international retailing.
Netflix has lost its first-mover advantage and is looking less than nimble in negotiations.
Indeed, producing a product with the benefit of tighter integration often results in losing the first-mover advantage.
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Still, he believes his first-mover advantage and his well-honed marketing strategies will help him beat his rivals.
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The hype and hysteria that accompanied every new scheme to build market share through first-mover advantage is over.
But, to maintain its global first-mover advantage, the report finds, Copenhagen must continue to invest in the low-carbon transition.
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This gives the other video-on-demand companies the chance of grabbing some first-mover advantage.
"The opportunity to gain first-mover advantage is outweighed by the potential teething problems that the technology could face, " he said.
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"The market appears to be giving us a first-mover advantage on Big Data, " Godfrey Sullivan, Splunk's chief executive, said in an interview.
We see here a good example of first-mover advantage in ETF marketing.
It is widely believed that first-mover advantage will be key in seizing the Internet if and when online gambling gets regulated, leading to a mad mobilization.
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The problem, however, was that Hewlett-Packard was a follower rather than a leader in this market, going against Apple that enjoyed the first-mover advantage in this market.
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The problem, however, was that Hewlett-Packard was a follower rather than a leader in this market, going against Apple which enjoyed the first-mover advantage in this market.
Economists refer to this window as the first-mover advantage.
Now a full-blown race to become the dominant MOOC is well underway, with Coursera, World Education University, Udacity, edX and many others competing for critical mass and first-mover advantage.
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That also confers a potentially bigger first-mover advantage on auction sites than on electronic retailers an advantage eBay is so bent on preserving that it has triggered antitrust inquiries into its efforts to stop rivals logging into its site for price and bidding data.
If the product proves successful in its infancy, it gives Intuit first-mover advantage if it acquires the technology, reduces the likelihood it will compete, and also brings it into its portfolio of offerings before the startup gains too much market traction and becomes expensive.
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Call it first mover's advantage--or a case of cyberserendipity.
Amazon has been one of the pioneers of the e-commerce world, and fans of the firm has said that this "first mover" advantage will be one of the biggest strengths in the online marketplace.
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