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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

But the alien metaphor serves as a neat acronym for the five dimensions of our ALIEN thinking framework: A for Attention. Current innovation frameworks–think lean startup or design sprint–emphasize speed and action over reflection and strategic breaks. In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. This represents a potential switching opportunity to modern CMS solutions.”

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF). “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii.

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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. It provides another excellent case study of innovator’s dilemma, and a great framework to predict the future impact of nascent disruptive innovations.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Eventually, however, we gained our footing and developed a mental model for the industry and a framework for where opportunities do exist. The more we learned, the more we realized how much we did not really understand. healthcare system is confusing and complex. We also discovered what we believe is a large and investible trend/theme.

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The Four Tenets of Conscious Capitalism

Entrepreneurs' Organization

To this end, the conscious capitalism movement provides a framework that includes four interconnected disciplines. Example: In 2009, Southwest Airlines decided to go against industry standards that were shifting toward fees for checked luggage. Higher purpose.

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VC Corner: Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

Startup Grind

Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? Although we spend lots of time talking about numbers, metrics and frameworks, there’s an artistic component to entrepreneurship that’s really important. What and when was your very first investment? What struck you about them? Anything else?

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