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The SEC is a regulatory body but it's also a prime mover in criminal enforcement actions, unlike, say, a taxicab commission.

First mover just means you are first to a new market.

He's not talking about being first mover, just that you can and should make decisions more quickly.

I think the idea is that you can cycle through many ideas more quickly; you may be thinking of first-mover advantage which is different from speed.

Surprising number of people on this thread are conflating first mover advantage with moving fast.

Hypothetically, there could have been 10 years of product development behind your first mover advantage.

The first mover has to work really, really hard to get ahead and stay there.

The Company’s scale and first-mover advantage provides them with project development expertise, access to capital and a broad network of relationships.

There's something said for last-mover advantage, but these types of apps are also non-trivial in storage/networking/other areas and somewhat hard to displace.

The time-to-market for novel biological processes/inventions is far too long to expect a significant first mover advantage without significant financial backing and IP protection.

In your opinion, what kind of advantages would an early-mover have?

Dropbox entered the market first and thus had a first-mover advantage.

I figured that business strategy was pretty self-evident when I said "first mover advantage," so didn't explicitly spell it out.

Pipes was the prime mover behind "suddenly, everything is mashable."

Tell you what - if you work with him for a week and decide that you still want to drop out, I'll sign the paper." My friend's uncle was a furniture mover in Boston.