Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Peter, who asks: “What’s the risk of focusing on what competitors are doing, as opposed to charting your own path? If all competitors are looking at each other, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Getty Images According to a widely cited (and debated) statistic, as many as nine out of ten startups fail within the first year.

Michael Dell founded his namesake company in 1984. Since then, dozens of consumer tech companies have risen and fallen — and he says he knows why. On the "Founders" podcast, Dell said that he watched ...