Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” The post Leonard Brody: The Great Rewrite appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This made sense in the age of the printed newspaper and the telephone network of yesteryear. The second trap is misunderstanding network effects. But each of these three separate networks would still be ridiculously powerful in its own right and so would be Twitter and whatever new networks are yet to come.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

3/ “Value Is In The Eye Of The Network” Bean-counters may scoff at acquisitions like GitHub as poorly run businesses that aren’t (yet) profitable, but in the world of 10-figure M&A, the exits seem to be largely a function of network defensibility and uniqueness. And yesterday, another feather in the cap — GitHub.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future. Boxee was created to give us this experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! Big companies just don’t seem to innovate the same way. One flaw could have been AOL acting like a big company.

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Gust

JULY 27, 2014

Those are hard, since someone has to invent something innovative, but I do have some views on other ideas whose time has come and gone. Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites.

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