During initial rounds, the first mover began by trusting (not confessing) 57% of the time.
After all, the smart phone world is a platform war, where first mover advantage and scale matter.
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Apple launched its App Store in July 2008 and has enjoyed a clear first mover advantage since then.
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Sometimes the basic concept is promising but the first mover isn't the winner.
In business, those who know the most, first, and are able to apply it have a big first mover advantage.
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So being a first mover in something that has increasing returns to scale and is about information--those are very cool things.
There are all sorts of things which can act as such barriers to entry: patents, copyrights, trademarks, geographical location, first mover advantage.
Once they do reach the shops, it will still be first mover advantage to Apple, and their public perception as innovators remains.
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Cradle to cradle re-use of materials needs to become the norm in production, as first mover companies such as Nike already recognize.
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The first mover is expected to be Porsche, which now controls Volkswagen, which, in turn, is the largest shareholder in both Scania and MAN.
During the Skoll Forum, I will have the pleasure of introducing three of these First Mover Fellows: a financial expert, an engineer and a corporate strategist.
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They are doubling down because when it comes to natural gas, Chesapeake is a first mover in shale fracking, the most compelling part of the energy business.
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Russia always had first mover advantage in the Southern Corridor purely by virtue of being able to redirect initial supplies from Ukraine towards South Stream markets.
And while that future may be another 10 years away, Mahindra hopes its first mover status will give it an edge over competitors looking to develop the same technology.
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"No one party or leader is prepared to take the risk of being the first mover in re-thinking policies, whether it be penal reform (or) reshaping the health service".
When we met him as a First Mover Fellow, he already had a successful track record as a process and project engineer and an assistant branding manager for Vaseline products.
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It's not at all clear that RBS will come off more lightly, though it's hard to imagine it can face as much reputational damage as Barclays sustained by being first mover.
Many of the seeds that were planted in the rush to gain first mover advantage in what producers say could be a very lucrative field are still years away from maturity.
Call it first mover's advantage--or a case of cyberserendipity.
The worry for some analysts is that Netflix ends up with little differentiation other than first mover advantage in streaming technologies, coupled to the hit and miss business of funding creative content.
With the current gens in particular, Sony was a first mover with the PS3 in terms of proper local distribution channels, supplemented by in-territory marketing activities and support for localization and local development efforts.
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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.
Outside of the infrastructure issues, first mover advantage will allow EE to gather a lot of media coverage as 4G is explained, and the mental associations built up between 4G and EE will be substantial.
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How big is the first mover advantage?
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It is therefore understandable that the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. is pushing Android LTE devices over the iPhone and trying to leverage its first mover advantage in order to make the billions it has spent on the network so far count.
Under true free-market capitalism, upon learning of the outsize profits of that "first-mover, " other firms would enter the market that would attempt to take all of the first company's customers away by lending at 40%.
Wal-Mart has learned the hard way that a first-mover advantage can be important in international retailing.
This spill-over fear thus reduces the first-mover advantages that private firms would otherwise expect.
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