{"id":1066,"date":"2008-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/04\/09\/1004\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:00:00","slug":"1004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/04\/09\/1004\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky at Inc.com \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/20080401\/how-hard-could-it-be-fire-and-motion_pagen_2.html\" title=\"Fire and Motion -- Leadership Strategies -- Joel on Software\">Fire and Motion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;If your competitors are really solving a problem in a unique way, you won&#8217;t miss out by focusing on your own customers. Rest assured that your customers are already trying to tell you that this opportunity exists, if you&#8217;ll only listen. A minute spent understanding the competition is a minute not spent listening to customers, potential customers, and near-miss customers, who would be happy to tell you directly what it would take to sell to them. You might even come up with a solution on your own that&#8217;s better than the one your competitor came up with. That&#8217;s when you start creating your own fire and motion &#8212; when you innovate.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky at Inc.com \u2013 Fire and Motion: &#8222;If your competitors are really solving a problem in a unique way, you won&#8217;t miss out by focusing on your own customers. Rest assured that your customers are already trying to tell you that this opportunity exists, if you&#8217;ll only listen. A minute spent understanding the competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}