Blockchain Competitive Advantage: Whether you are an entrepreneur, investor, or established company, learn how to win the battle for blockchain competitive advantage, reviewed

We look at this thought provoking and interesting book by husband and wife team of Alison Davis and Matthew C Le Merle. You can see more about the book here and their website here.

Blockchain Competitive Advantage: learn how to win the battle for blockchain competitive advantage, reviewed

Written in 2019 this book has elements of being prescient and also a reminder of how far things have come along and changed in the time since this was written. The authors have a good grounding in the industry to write this book, and they have impressive resumes which does mean the book has not been written for opportunistic  reasons.

The book follows a methodical structure and carefully walks you through what blockchains are, the different flavours of them, why they are useful, and how they could be applied to various potential business cases. Chapter 13, Entrepreneur Advantage is also a good example of the detailed exploration of the potential opportunities that are worth exploring. Two years on too, it is arguable that the technology has matured and there may be less of a gap between the hype and the possibilities of what can actually be achieved.

The authors have written a series of books in this sector and this is a helpful addition to the wider big picture they are hoping to describe and inform of terms of the opportunities to be had out there.

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Blockchain is moving into a new competitive phase that requires a clearer future view and more focused strategies for competing. Whether you are an entrepreneur, investor, or established company, learn how to win the battle for blockchain competitive advantage. This book provides clear advice from two experts in strategy, technology investing and blockchain. In its pages the authors:

• Establish a vision of the future and the big issues that need to be solved

• Describe the enabling innovations and technologies that may be leveraged

• Show you how to develop your strategy—making sure you have a “way to play,” that you understand the key success factors, and that you quickly secure a “right to win.”

In blockchain a few of the leaders have begun to do just this, and they are preparing now for a much more competitive game—which is coming fast.

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Matthew Le Merle is Managing Partner of Fifth Era and of Blockchain Coinvestors, the leading blockchain venture fund of funds with investments in 250+ blockchain companies and projects and 20+ blockchain unicorns. Matthew is also Managing Partner of Keiretsu – the most active early-stage venture investors backing over 300 companies a year. He is Chairman of Concept Art House, Securitize (Europe), Universal Protocol Alliance and Vice Chairman of SFOX.

He is currently serving as an advisor to a number of teams including the Trident/Lottery.com and EC Assets SPACs. Matthew’s career has spanned being a global strategy advisor, professional services firm leader, corporate operating executive, private equity and venture capital investor, and board director. His board work has included Chairman or Non-Executive Director roles in 15 public and private companies and active Advisory
Board roles in fast growth companies. Matthew’s board experience includes a broad range of industries including Digital Content/videogames, eCommerce, Fintech/Blockchain, Business Services, Consumer and Retail.

Matthew has advised sovereign and regional economic entities on issues of innovation, entrepreneurialism and cluster growth. Clients have covered the globe from China, the EU, and the UK to the US including in his home state of California and the Bay Area/Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, Matthew spent 21 years as a strategy, operations and corporate finance advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards and executive teams with McKinsey & Company, and as a practice leader with A.T.
Kearney and Monitor Group where he led both firms’ West Coast practices and at Booz & Company. He was also a corporate executive at Gap Inc. where he was SVP strategy and corporate development and SVP globalmarketing.

Matthew is an adjunct professor at Singularity University, bestselling author (The Intelligent Investor – Silicon Valley, Blockchain Competitive Advantage, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, Build your Fortune in the Fifth Era, The Ministry of Bitcoin and Second Chance) and keynote speaker. He received a B.A. (Double First)
and Master’s from Christ Church, Oxford, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was born in London, UK, and is now a dual US/UK citizen and lives in San Francisco and London with his wife, Alison Davis. They have five adult children.

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