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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The thesis of the book is that incumbents in markets – especially large and well entrenched markets – seldom survive fundamental technology changes in their industries. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.

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

TechCrunch

billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. At the height of the dot.com boom in the first quarter of 2000, the bank had invested in a record 53 startups.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

For instance, in first quarter 2015, 55% of all American venture rounds were either seed or Series A, split almost evenly, while 19% of all rounds were Series B (the third round of financing), according to data from CB Insights. Because the U.S. Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school?