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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. 99% of the articles about the company were positive. Having a steady income and providing for a family is one of life’s highest commitments and honors. I’d love even 0.5%

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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community

Revolution

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on October 3, 2022. At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry.

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What Should You Make of the Web Summit Controversy? A View Behind the Scenes

Both Sides of the Table

Like many of you I read the Is Web Summit a Scam article making the rounds this week. I even wrote about my experiences attending Web Summit , something I rarely ever write about. ” So how should you feel about Web Summit, DreamForce, TechCrunch Disrupt, CES, SxSW or any of the myriad of tech events that are put on every year?

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

Both Sides of the Table

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. One day television & film are going to be disrupted and the opportunities for monetization by those that understand the future will be immense.

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Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

TechCrunch

But when he was struck by the urge to start a company, he researched the money-attracting industries of the world, and then, using AngelList, saw how many companies were trying to disrupt those industries. So YC viewed this as a major disruptive play. What do you think made Convoy stand out? Is that still a good method?

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Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M

TechCrunch

According to a recent survey from Capgemini, companies see disruption in the supply chain as the top risk to their business growth, ahead of rising raw material prices and the energy crisis. And parts of Europe faced uncommonly high temperatures and drought conditions.

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Incremental Innovation is Just As Powerful as Disruption

Tomasz Tunguz

The main point of the article is quoted below: [We are living in an era of] cautiousness far too satisfied with incremental improvements. The genuine progress in IT from the 1970s up to the 2000s masked the relative stagnation of energy, transportation, space, materials, agriculture and medicine. Transportation.