Straw-Manning
- Founders "straw-man" competitors, replacing the product of competitors with more convenient ones from which to differentiate.
- Excluding real competitors, and only share competitors that are easy to differentiate.
- This happens when they are living in denial, and even claim that they don't have any competitors, which is always an illusion.
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