&gt; It&#x27;s important to articulate why the company will eventually be in a strategically valuable position (i.e. a monopoly).<p>Is it possible to ever answer this in a meaningful way, besides &quot;we&#x27;re going to be the best and get mindshare and beat everyone out of the market&quot;?  Anyone have examples, or care to imagine what the answer would have looked like for those few companies that DID go on to dominate a market?<p>I guess if your product has vendor lock-in or network&#x2F;virual effects then you&#x27;re in a better place to answer it well (?).