Built on Public Data?
For any data business, vertical experience and niche expertise often provide a significant defensive moat to the business – at least early in the business.
But over time, especially for businesses built on top of public data, increasing competition is likely.
All data businesses should anticipate this moment and prepare their Data Moat Expansion Strategy.
About the Data Moat Expansion Strategy
The Data Moat Expansion Strategy takes the following into account:
- The increasingly strategic aspects of Data Quantity, Data Quality and Data Access
- The impact of time
- Data being public or private
Subrise’s Data Moat Expansion Strategy is a strategic framework to help data businesses move beyond an initial public data position. To do this, a data business relying on public data can outcompete competition by focusing, in sequentil order, on:
- Increasing Data Quantity
- Then, increasing Data Quality
- And finally, leveraging Data Access
Ultimately, any data business built on public data must leverage data quantity and quality to its advantage over time, and ideally aim for new data sources over time that are not public, thus creating a true data moat.
The Data Moat Expansion Strategy – Visualized
