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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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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

The struggle is real: It’s never a good look when, fresh from raising capital, a startup cuts a substantial portion of its staff. Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them. How nifty is that?

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The Expanding Role of Marketing in SaaS Companies

Tomasz Tunguz

The most recent landscape for marketing products totaled more than 2000 alternatives. So, it is incumbent for each startup to determine which of the disciplines is most important, given the goals and the stage of the business. These companies build more defensible, faster moving, and more capital efficient businesses.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. And would might happen if the company didn’t spend all this capital?

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Catching a Second Wind

OurCrowd

The decline doesn’t seem to be letting up in 2019, with retailers shutting down 23% more stores than they did at the start of last year (2000+ store closings), according to Coresight Research. Even well-established brands like Toys “R” Us and Sears are not immune to these trends, both declaring bankruptcy in 2018.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

is the primary provider of venture capital to itself and the rest of the world, the companies vying for these funds are now more global than ever. Because the U.S. If you don’t think the competition for Series B funding is very global, you need only consider very stale data from Canada.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

TechCrunch

It’s another example of an incumbent recognizing that it makes more sense to buy a company that has developed technology that it wants rather than building it out itself – a process that would take far longer and require more resources than a simple acquisition would. “We In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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