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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

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These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. But I wrote about one other point that I wrote back in March 2010 so it’s clear I didn’t just dream this up after today’s panel. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000.

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How I learned to change the oil in my car and found a new office because of Shake Shack and a hackathon

This is going to be BIG.

After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. It’d be great to get a mention in NYC Innovation. More detail from Tarikh below. Thanks in advance for help getting the word out.

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. THAT is disruption. Today’s Normalization.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. then bought GeoCities for $3.6 Enter Facebook.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. If the “forever ramen profitable&# or “startups as a source of M&A innovation&# arguments don’t hold then we’re likely headed for one big brick wall. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand.