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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: EnricoPalazzo who wrote (40497)	3/16/2001 9:00:11 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Ethan, Gorilla Candidate = Chimp Candidate I believe you're right about that. At least I hope you are. Though the so-called definition of a chimp is as you wrote, I seem to remember that there were examples in the book implying that Moore was really thinking of a broader definition. I read the CRM case study and he stayed strictly to the literal definition. Regardless, I like the clarity of a chimp being a gorilla candidate that failed. consideryourselfnitpicked.net Not at all. These clarifications are really important. So don't be deluded into thinking that you're very good at nit-picking. :) --Mike Buckley

To: EnricoPalazzo who wrote (40497)	3/16/2001 11:54:14 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

Chimps are companies that tried to become the gorilla but just didn't get picked. ... Gorilla Candidate = Chimp Candidate. Well, I suppose that we are always free to decide otherwise, but by ordinary language construction I would say that a Gorilla Candidate was a potential Gorilla in a a market where one had not yet clearly emerged so if a Chimp is a company that was a potential Gorilla, i.e., was once a Gorilla Candidate, once the Gorilla is picked, it changes from Candidate to Chimp.