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Learn from your competitors  

Mark Suster has posted another article (or rather, a second part to yesterday's article, discussing how to treat your competition.

The very sensible suggestion is to avoid the easy macho assumption that your competitors are all stupid, and instead go out and meet them and have friendly meetings discussing various problems your industry is facing. After all, you're all trying to solve the same problems, and have a lot to learn from each other.

More from the library:
Send your (wrong-fit) customers to your competitors
Civilisation, productivity, and choice
Myths of building a great mobile team