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by thatthatis 4595 days ago
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/j/judo-business-strategy.a...

http://judoinfo.com/pdf/business.pdf

Judo strategy is when you go up against a larger opponent and use their size to your advantage. It's an easy term to google.

Judo strategy is employed most famously when you price to capture a fraction of the market such that their cost to win those customers back by lowering their prices would have a higher cannibalization cost to existing customers than the benefit of getting the lost customers back. Price is just one of the ways to use a judo strategy, but it is the easiest to understand.

I'm telling you that 20 year olds often have zero opportunity cost, zero holding cost, and zero living cost. Because they exist in a "pre-adult" state, they are scary to compete against because they often can act irrationally for long periods of time with no repercussions.

If there is an opportunity, I'd rather go up against a large multinational company who will almost always act rationally but inefficiently than a field of likely to be irrational opponents.