How to Protect Your Turf

Five tips on beating out the competition and making your business stickier The ease with which Google+ is now competing with Facebook for mindshare has me thinking about barriers to entry. Warren Buffett famously invests in businesses with what he calls a protective “moat” around them, meaning that they have some protection from competition that allows them to control their pricing. Big companies lock out their competitors by out-slugging them in capital infrastructure investments (anyone care to compete against CN Rail)

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How to Protect Your Turf