{"id":3477,"date":"2006-12-08T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:19:04","slug":"nobody-remembers-the-second-to-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/nobody-remembers-the-second-to-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Remembers The Second To Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old adage which powered a large number of failed startups remains true.  If you break into a new industry or make a new product, you have to be the first to offer it and build market share, or no one will think to buy your product when there&#8217;s a dominant product already offered.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: Christian First Person Shooter video games.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisdomtreegames.com\/super\/\" target=\"_new\">Super 3D Noah&#8217;s Ark<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_video_games\" target=\"_new\">credited<\/a> with being the first.<\/p>\n<p>And you cannot even think of what might have been the second one, can you?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s probably an MBA paper in this anecdote somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old adage which powered a large number of failed startups remains true. If you break into a new industry or make a new product, you have to be the first to offer it and build market share, or no one will think to buy your product when there&#8217;s a dominant product already offered. Case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18397,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/18397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}