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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. One day television & film are going to be disrupted and the opportunities for monetization by those that understand the future will be immense.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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This article originally appeared on Silicon Alley Insider. We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. Market Opportunity. But what about markets?

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The Surest Sign You’re Winning is When Goliath Takes a Swing at You

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. And the giant gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete. And what prompted this lawsuit?

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Startup playbook: reverse-engineering Clay Christens’s market disruptions

Tomasz Tunguz

In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. This is particularly true when incumbents are already competing with each other with commodity goods and use price as a differentiator.

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The Nubank EC-1

TechCrunch

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. McCarthy, who spent significant time in Brazil growing up and is trilingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese, has been covering the LatAm and Miami ecosystems for TechCrunch with an eye to the disruption underway in these interconnected regions.

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After selling Bread last year for over $500M, this founder just raised millions for his new fintech startup

TechCrunch

The space is one of those massive unsexy categories with huge incumbents that most people have never heard of but customers — who are forced to use them — universally despise. It’s the perfect recipe for a startup to come in and disrupt it with a much better experience,” Mohnot told TechCrunch via e-mail.

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History of The MP3

Unvalidated Learnings

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.