What is competitive advantage?

A large userbase leads to possible large revenue streams, but when is it a competitive advantage and when is it not? or is it just a competitive advantage while you have it? Consider the case where the user base of Myspace switched to Facebook, or when...

Beyond cheap land and labor, what does Detroit offer to make it a worthwhile place (for living in, operating a business, anything)? What is it about the geography, history, policies, and so forth that give it an inherent edge over other cities? There...

Some would say it varies dependent on what business you are in. True! But could we try to boil it down anyway. What are the most important areas in which Apple, Starbucks, Skype, Whole Foods, Amazon and the local bakery creates competitive advantage...

Morgan Stanley just issued a hugely bullish report on Tesla. Most of the facts and figures in the chart were about the market for electric cars in general, not Tesla specifically. GM has the Volt, Nissan has the Leaf, Mercedes has something, and eventually...

Just need help finding out the competitive advantage of monster energy drinks against other competitors like red bull. And if possible a link with the information on if possible

Think Google, think MS, think of other companies that you think have such strong competitive advantage that it will be very very difficult to move them or at least it would take so long for another company to move them that they have a reasonable time...

Knowing that everyone could propose service on it, how do you enforce a competitive advantage of a software you've wrote and that you've released under a FLOSS licence.

What are some good examples of barriers to entry that early stage internet/web startups can build or posses; besides the obvious ones: patents, first mover advantage, brand, and the team. Looking specifically at early stage companies which are either...