The book reveals the dynamics driving the market for high-tech stocks and outlines the forces that catapult a select number of companies to "gorilla" status -- dominating the markets they serve in the way that Yahoo! dominates internet portals, Microsoft dominates software operating systems, and Cisco dominates hardware for data networks.
Follow the rules of The Gorilla Game and you will learn how to identify and invest in the "gorilla candidates" early on -- while they are still fighting for dominance, and while their stocks are still cheap. When the dust clears and one company clearly attains leadership in its market, you'll reap the enormous returns that foresighted investors in high-tech companies deserve.
This new edition of The Gorilla Game has been updated and revised throughout, with new focus and new insights into choosing the internet gorillas -- the companies that are destined to dominate internet commerce.
Bestselling author Geoffrey A. Moore is one of the world's leading consultants in high-tech marketing strategy. Here you'll find his groundbreaking ideas about technology markets that made his previous books bestsellers, combined with the work of Paul Johnson, a top Wall Street technology analyst, and Tom Kippola, a high-tech consultant and highly successful private inv
Why Is High Tech Different?
First of all, it is not the bits and bytes that make high tech so special, so you don't have to be technical to understand what is going on. Instead, as we will explain in detail in the next chapter, it is the discontinuous innovations that make the difference. Innovation is a concept we are all familiar with-new stuff makes us happy, we buy it, sellers sell it, it's called an economy. Discontinuity is the new idea. It means not compatible with the existing systems. Electric cars, video telephones, and Web TV, for example, all make exciting promises, but none of them can be used without much of the world changing the way they do business. Prospective customers are attracted to the compelling new benefits, but to get them, a whole lot of existing systems will have to change. That creates a battle in the marketplace whose outcome is uncertain.
Sometimes the battle is lost, and the proposed discontinuous innovation simply disappears. The technology lives on, to be sure, finding its way into oth ... read full excerpt from Gorilla Game, Revised Edition, The: Picking Winners in High Technology ebook
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You'll need a Palm OS or PocketPC/Windows CE Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a Windows or Macintosh desktop (or laptop) PC.
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