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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Incumbents feel threatened.

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Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Others may call this dichotomy digital versus physical, the disruptor mindset versus the incumbent mindset, start-up world versus Fortune 500, or tech culture versus industrial culture. The post Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed appeared first on THE BLOG.

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The Interchange: Stripe takes a swing at Plaid

TechCrunch

Well, this past week, the company came out with an indirect response to the latter in the form of a blog post written by its CEO Maju Kuruvilla. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. Fundid injects first funding into providing capital, credit for small businesses – Christine Hall.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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401(k) provider Human Interest doubles valuation with $55M fundraise

TechCrunch

Secondly, the majority of its existing backers joined one new investor — NEA spinout NewView Capital (NVC) — in pumping more capital into Human Interest. The big incumbents haven’t figured out how to make plans affordable and accessible for smaller companies,” Schneble said. “We

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Quickly Unpacking SAP’s $8B Acquisition Of Qualtrics

Haystack

By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping. Of course, SAP or others could’ve made a run at Qualtrics earlier, and who knows – maybe folks had tried and failed.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Revolution, what is it?

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