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Competitive Advantage:
Differentiate Your Business
From the Competition

Valuable M&A Content

Valuable M&A Content
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  1. Four Methods of Competitive Advantages

By: Jared Lewis, Chron Small Business

Businesses are constantly seeking competitive advantages in the marketplace. There are many different ways in which this can be done, but many will focus on a few tried and true methods of gaining a leg up on the competition.

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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 Importance Of Controlling Your Competitive Advantage

By: Enrique Dans, Forbes

An interesting article in TechCrunch called "Why Dropbox decided to drop AWS and build its own infrastructure and network" explores the reasons why Dropbox made the decision, executed between 2014 and 2016, to abandon Amazon AWS storage services, where it had hosted users’ content since the company's inception in 2007, and decided instead to build its own network of data centers.

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  1. 3 Important Ways Being Different Works to Your Competitive Advantage

By: Rhett Power, Inc. Magazine

"None can duplicate my brush strokes, none can duplicate my chisel marks, none can duplicate my handwriting... Henceforth, I will capitalize on this difference for it is an asset to be promoted to the fullest."

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