Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

Generation Y (1981-2000) = 35%. Generation Z are the newest additions to the workforce and are described as universal, innovative and open-minded as well as those who value diversity, individuality, creativity and personalization. Supporting multigenerational workforces. Baby boomers (1946- 1964) = 25%. Generation X (1965-1980) = 33%.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

Traditionally, corporations that invest in innovation during a crisis outperform peers by up to 30% during recovery, a recent McKinsey report reveals. Ironically, the same report also reveals that current corporate commitment to innovation has been decreasing as CEOs prioritize their core business in the wake of Covid-19.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I’ve taken many wrong turns, but each path taught me to better navigate the world of entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership. It’s not hard to feel lost when you’re leading a team, starting a movement or simply trying to keep the lights on—all while disrupting an industry.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Hedge funds on average have underperformed on a net of fees basis in both US equities and bonds since 2000. The resulting herd mentality hurts innovation and leads to suboptimal returns. A private equity/VC investor can proactively recruit new team members, win clients, or if necessary change management. . The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. Blue Origin, which was founded in 2000, has sent 25 nonprofessionals on suborbital space tourism flights. Investors funneled $15.4

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Every year, we put together this list of top private companies, and we are blown away by the level of innovation, growth, and impact they are making on the SMB economy. Congratulations to all on making this year’s list.” Placement on the 2023 SMBTech 50 is the latest in a string of accolades Boulevard has garnered in recent months.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. The world continues to beat a path to your door until one day, when seemingly out of nowhere, the disruptor gets disrupted. The sword of innovation that you skillfully yielded in your battle to breakthrough turns out to be double-edged.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. Helps daring companies with innovative consumer-facing solutions expand to new markets. Rebel One is a global community of founders innovating to make the world a better place. . Anthos Capital. D4 Ventures.

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2020

Historically, venture investing right after major market downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2000-2002, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new venture investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 7, 2014

On the other hand, companies founded since 2000 account for 19% of the stock tickers but only 10% of the market cap. Let’s break these trends down by sector as a proxy for innovation rate. Below, I’ve plotted the year of founding of each of these 250 companies. 13% of the top 250 IT companies today were founded before 1950.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

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. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma. Every song ever produced anywhere could be procured in seconds.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

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. This is an excerpt from OurCrowd’s Q2 Innovation Insider, download it here. About the Author.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The world in which our communications was controlled by the telephone and media companies of 20 years ago would have been much less innovative than what we have achieved, which is precisely why we need to protect future companies not even created yet from anti-competitive behavior. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating. Furthermore, the disruptions the world faces, whether social, economic, health or education- related, affect us all. There is no end of problems for our innovation ecosystem to solve and we are just getting started. .

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Technological innovation in a market system is inherently philanthropic , by a 50:1 ratio. We believe the techno-capital machine of markets and innovation never ends, but instead spirals continuously upward. The other 98% flows through to society in the form of what economists call social surplus.

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