defensibility

Names that invoke your product through onomatopoeia, like 'Twitter' strike a good balance between effective communication and defensibility.

Question: Assuming that your algorithms will become known or can be replicated, how do you think about your defensibility?

Is the basis for the former's defensibility the assumption that it is strictly defensive in nature?

Microbes can be easy to culture and store, so that doesn't really count as defensibility...

And if this whole thing is about branding, then why not focus on the defensibility of the product rather than the name?

The only real defensibility at work here are the network effects, which are totally asymmetrical due to the city-focussed nature of ride-sharing.

I think what many investors are getting at is less about initial differentiation and more about long-term defensibility.

The defensibility of Snapchat against competitors is the demographics of the user base.

If I were in Uber's shoes, I would worry about the defensibility of the business model.

What I don't see in this article is any analysis of the growth potential, long-term margins, and defensibility that these businesses possess.

One goes to the attorney's opinion of actual legality/defensibility.

When you're dealing with such small companies, they're usually pretty early in their market and might not have built up enough defensibility to share all of their information publicly.

One could argue that Yelp, AirBnB and Uber all fall into the "marketplace" category of defensibility rationale.

When I ask myself the question of what will provide defensibility, I can't think of a good answer other than "it depends".

It's almost a requirement to have a patent for "defensibility".

Would you mind elaborating on that defensibility claim ("if you look at any of these local businesses, whether they’re Yelp, or Grubhub, or whatever… once they’re built, they’re defensible")?

Defensibility: What is your competitive advantage and how do you respond to big names coming into your space?

Defensibility of a business model is your friend, not you enemy.

Defensibility for us: microbes we build, and the platform they form.