How do you look at competitors?
During the dot-com boom days, I had a memorable and wonderful experience of working at SmartMoney.com, a joint-venture between Dow Jones and Hearst Corporation. SmartMoney started out as personal finance printed magazine that Hearst Magazines published. SmartMoney.com was a collaboration between two publishing firms that tried to do more with data. For example, the software that SmartMoney.com developed offered novel data visualization. It started out only with stock market data visualization and later expanded into other types of data visualization including the historical archives of the Smithsonian Museum. There was keen competition during this time due to high stock market volatility and every time Motley Fool, CBS MarketWatch, or Yahoo! Finance published something that SmartMoney.com's online publishing didn't, there was a tizzy that went on in the office as to why we didn't get there earlier. At that time, I was in my second job out of college and learned of the inte...