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Identifying Your Competitive Advantage


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  1. How Do I Determine My Company's Competitive Advantage?

By: Sean Ross, Investopedia

Most companies are either founded on a competitive advantage or can apply certain criteria toward finding their competitive advantage.

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  1. Identify the Competitive Advantage, Chapter 4, Sell Your Business For An Outrageous Price

By: Kevin Short, Clayton Capital Partners

In this Chapter, we look at identifying a company’s competitive advantage through two prisms: first doing so is a step in the Proactive Sale Strategy and second, the presence of a competitive advantage is a fundamental requirement of the Outrageous Price Process.

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  1. The Four Rs Of Competitive Advantage

By: Roger Trapp, Forbes

In all the talk of the role of companies in society, it is easy to lose sight of what business is all about.

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  1. Maintain Your Competitive Advantage by Focusing on Your Most Valuable Asset — You

By: Hamlet Batista, Entrepreneur

"What's your competitive advantage — your secret sauce?"

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