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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts.

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What To Do When Your Competitor Gets Funded?

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Conventional wisdom says I shouldn’t tell you this because I invested in their main competitor, MakeSpace. Clutter is LA based and many of my friends invested. years it was hard to get other investors to see this unsexy market as ripe for innovation. ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents.

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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

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Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. The recurring second wave of innovation.

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. Since 2010, we’ve.

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The Market Diversifies: International Innovation Captures Larger Share Of Startup Funding Applications

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In Q3 the global startup ecosystem continued to thrive, with 25% growth over the same quarter last year and up 18% from last quarter, as the innovation economy expands around the world. The post The Market Diversifies: International Innovation Captures Larger Share Of Startup Funding Applications appeared first on The Gust Blog.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? Asia is smaller but growing as wealth increases in large, urban environments.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

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Innovation. The stocks are managed as REITs (real estate investment trusts) and their tenants are you skis, bikes and winter clothes. Most customers won’t drive more than a few miles to a self storage unit making the incumbents essentially local retail businesses. And they have. The value prop is pretty clear. ” Ha.