[avk]

> "This is an instance of a more general rule: focus on users, not competitors. The most important information about competitors is what you learn via users anyway."

I found this to be the strongest way of saying don't obsess about your competition. Focusing on users will probably help address other issues as well (i.e. working on the wrong problem, building the wrong thing, not making as much of an impact as you could be, etc).

[josephlord]

And I would agree with both of you but you do need to be better at something for someone than your competitors. You don't need to be better at everything or everyone but there needs to be a reason to use you rather than your competitor for at least a subset of people..