Summary: The Gorilla Game E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Business Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 27

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson and Tom Kippola's book: "The Gorilla Game: An Investor's Guide to Picking Winners in High Technology".

This complete summary of the ideas from Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson and Tom Kippola's book "The Gorilla Game" shows how the real challenge in business is how to identify the potential star performers of tomorrow before their stock becomes highly valued in the marketplace. In their book, the authors explain how "gorilla game investing" is a strategy designed to answer that challenge. It focuses specifically on high technology stocks and industry sectors. Within those sectors, a ‘‘gorilla’’ is a market leading company with a dominant position. This summary demonstrates "gorilla game investing" and how it can lead to huge profits.

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To learn more, read "The Gorilla Game" and discover the key to finding the future giants and making the right investment.

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Book PresentationThe Gorilla Game by Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson & Tom Kippola

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Summary of The Gorilla Game (Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson & Tom Kippola)

PART 1: A GORILLA INVESTING TOOLKIT - CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS

PART 2: THE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES AND 10 RULES OF SUCCESSFUL GORILLA INVESTING

PART 3: APPLYING GORILLA GAME PRINCIPLES TO INVESTING IN THE INTERNET

Book PresentationThe Gorilla Game by Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson & Tom Kippola

Book Abstract

MAIN IDEA

Most people are familiar with calculations such as: “If you’d invested $10,000 in Microsoft stock in 1986 when it went public, your stock would now be worth more than $1.8 million”. The challenge has always been, however, how do you identify such potential super performers of tomorrow before their stock becomes highly valued in the marketplace?

Gorilla game investing is an investment strategy designed to answer that challenge. It focuses specifically on high technology stocks and industry sectors. Within those sectors, a “gorilla” is a market leading company, which has such a dominant position – by virtue of its proprietary technology – that it can be likened to a huge gorilla which dominates its part of the jungle.

To understand the dynamics of market leadership in a high-technology market, a gorilla toolkit is first developed. It contains the concepts, definitions and working theories on which gorilla investing is based. This is contained in Part 1 of this summary.

Part 2 outlines the essential principles of gorilla investing, along with the 10 rules of the system. It deals with how to spot a high-tech market about to enter hyper growth, why you should initially spread your investment over all potential gorillas and then why you should gradually consolidate your investment resources into one company once it attains gorilla style dominance of its market.

Finally, how this game plays out in the real world is outlined briefly in Part 3 where an Internet investment strategy is developed using gorilla game principles.

Gorilla game investing ultimately attempts to factor into a company’s future market value the forward-looking dynamics unique to high-technology markets – before the rest of the market becomes fully aware of them. As such, it attempts to position investors in emerging super-performers as early as possible, so that in future, you can begin your own version of: “If you’d invested…….”

Important Note About This Ebook

This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.

Summary of The Gorilla Game (Geoffrey Moore, Paul Johnson & Tom Kippola)

PART 1: A GORILLA INVESTING TOOLKIT - CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS

Main Idea

To be equipped to successfully identify and invest in gorilla stocks, you first need to assemble a toolkit of relevant concepts and definitions.

In particular, you need to understand:

The concept of layers of technologyThe definition of discontinuous innovationThe concept of the technology adoption life cycleThe concept of a high technology adoption life cycleThe definition of a gorilla companyThe concept of high-tech value chainsSome stock market valuation basics

Supporting Ideas

Concept: Layers of Technology