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The 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Hamilton Helmer

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jason Evanish liked it affiliate
This book is a great breakdown of the 7 best "moats" that a business can have to create competitive advantages. If you want a framework for thinking about how defensible your business idea could be and strategies to win a market, this is a great place to start. My main complaint with this book is that there's some pointless pseudo-equations in the book and some academic-speak that make parts of the book harder to follow than necessary.

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.