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Network Effects vs Network Economies: The Materiality Test
Almost everything has some network effect; only ask whether it's large enough to change your margins.
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Startup Power Progression: Eliminate Three, Sequence Four
Cross off the three powers a startup can't have yet, then pursue the remaining four in sequence — counter-positioning first.
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The Benefit-and-Barrier Power Test (To Be or Not to Be)
Only call it power if it delivers a cost/price benefit AND a barrier competitors can't erase.
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The Castle-or-Shack Audit
Go capability by capability and separate the ones a rival can copy (shack) from the ones they truly can't (castle).
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The Process Power Qualifier: Material and Opaque
Operational excellence is only power when it's both material AND impossible for rivals to copy.
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