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The Year to Be Great

Andreessen Horowitz

A Great company brings the most innovative products to the market and continuously evolves them to meet changing demand. A Great company has a strong, defensible business model that can win market share from incumbents. This is the year for growth-stage companies to become Great.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

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

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

TechCrunch

We believe personalization represents the future of retirement savings and will drive the next wave of innovative retirement solutions.” It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g. In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46.

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History of The MP3

Unvalidated Learnings

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. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment.