I’ve talked on this blog before about the importance of beign a best-mover rather than a first mover. Speed is not the route to success… being better is (as well as many other factors). Just found this article from a new book on this very subject: Will and Vision: How Latecomers Grow to Dominate Markets
“Consider for example the following:
Gillette entered the safety razor market decades after it began but has dominated it ever- since. Microsoft dominates many markets but has pioneered none. Amazon is the dominant but not the first Internet bookseller.”