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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: 100cfm who wrote (12206)12/7/1999 8:25:00 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
cannot a company cultivate and evolve it's product to a point where it is a proprietary standard and thus garnish gorilla power for itself.

IMO, that is what Intel did with the 1086 chip for the PC.

BUT INTEL IS STILL A KING!

A Company becomes a King in Tech by having a product or services that:

It has a head start on,

Is difficult to duplicate,

And, it markets it well.

The emerging King will go through all the phases of a Gorilla: Chasm, Bowling alley, Tornado; only much faster, because it will have an easier time getting acceptance from it's customers.

This means that we will be interested in the stock earlier than we would for a Gorilla.

But, it will always have the "Achilles Heel" that it can suffer price erosion from competitors.

That means, we won't sleep quite as well at night with it, and may jump out earlier than we would with a Gorilla. Both the slowdowns in Intel and Dell's stock happened quickly and caught most investors by surprise.

But, with our knowledge of Kings, it should not happen to us!

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