As a business owner, or marketer tasked with elevating the status of your brand, it's imperative that you find a way to rise above the crowd and overcome the burgeoning list of industry competitors.
If we look hard, we find all kinds of supposedly established legacy companies that would be vulnerable to competition from an eager and creative startup.
Sure, you're smart, capable and love a challenge. But in a marketplace with three million competitors, you'd better think 10 times or more about entering it.
The companies parted ways under mounting competition, with OpenTable facing new rivals to its reservation business and Yelp dogged with questions about stalling growth.
By 2017, 80 percent of U.S. consumers will be using services from peer-to-peer collaborative companies. Here's what you need to know if you aren't Uber or Airbnb.