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A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen
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About A Smart Bear"Building in public" is popular: How fun when strangers cheer you on! But isn't competitive advantage ruined when competitors know your growth rate and steal your source code?
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Treat building in public as a stress test for your moat: if sharing progress, metrics, or methods destroys your advantage, the business may rely too heavily on secrets rather than hard-to-replicate strengths such as customer insight, execution, brand, or compounding systems.
Competitors can copy visible features and tactics. Founders need an advantage that remains durable even when others understand what the company is doing.
List what a competitor could learn from your public updates, then ask: What advantage would remain difficult to reproduce, and how can we strengthen it this quarter?
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