If You Think Being The Fisrt Matters More...Think Again!

Do you know that Being First Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Being Relevant?
It’s More Than Just About who started first but who is better at it

Competition is on the high side of life generally; no matter what it is you intend to do, what matters most is how you play the “game”

“Getting there first shouldn’t be what it’s all about. What should matter always is execution.,” Cox told Vargas for the piece.

Lets go wide, using Fabook vs Quora & Yahoo vs Google:
In response to the idea that Facebook had copied Quora’s (a company started by a bunch of ex-early-Facebookers) idea with Facebook Questions. But it’s actually something I was thinking about quite a bit this week, entirely unrelated to Facebook.

Specifically, what got me thinking about this notion also includes what I once read about Yahoo’s response to Google September 13th 2010.

In a post titled: “Back to the Future: Innovation is Alive in Search,” Yahoo passive-aggressively notes how they beat Google to the innovation of realtime search results. And as a bonus, they even throw in a few veiled hints that they could sue Google for copying their idea if they wanted to thanks to their “filed patent applications” and “first developed” “intellectual property.”

I couldn’t come up with a good angle at the time beyond simply writing two words:

Shut. Up.

HELLO! Saying you were first to do something is just such a waste of time. If you did it right, people will know that you were first.

When the iPod launched in 2001, there were a ton of MP3 players already on the market. It didn’t matter. Apple nailed it. And won as a result.

Record books celebrate the first. People celebrate the best. 

Strive to be the BEST while you pay less attention being the First