How Digital Is Wrecking Havoc on Barriers to Entry (Tech Strategy – Podcast 115)

This week’s podcast is about Barriers to Entry, which is one of my 6 levels of competition. You can listen to this podcast here or at iTunes and Google Podcasts. Here is my new book: Moats and Marathons (Part 1): How to Build and Measure Competitive Advantage in Digital Businesses Kindle Edition I break competition under digital change into […]

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Don’t Go Gaga Over Shein’s “Ultra-Fast Fashion” Model. It’s Mostly a Low-Priced DTC Apparel Story. (Tech Strategy – Daily Article)

In the past year, Chinese online apparel brand and retailer Shein surpassed Amazon (briefly) as the #1 downloaded ecommerce app in the USA. That got people’s attention. People are remembering how TikTok did the same thing to Facebook 1-2 years ago. And there are unconfirmed reports of 100% year-over-year revenue growth for Shein, reaching $10B […]

JD and Competitive Advantages vs. Entry Barriers in China Retail (Daily Lesson – Jeff’s Asia Tech Class)

A final short discussion about this week’s lecture / podcast on JD vs. Alibaba. And how they compete on different factors. The talk is located here: JD vs. Alibaba: How Retailers and Marketplace Platforms Compete and Evolve in China (Jeff’s Asia Tech Class – Podcast 18) I expanded on this in yesterday’s Daily Lesson, where […]

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