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Leonard Brody: The Great Rewrite

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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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Facebook and Speech: It’s All About Power

Continuations

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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Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight

Y Combinator

They can accrue huge value by reducing friction and aggregating supply and demand — particularly because they have the ability to build network effects and economies of scale. In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g.,

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Validate Your Startup Idea Like a Pro: My 4-Step Framework

Entrepreneur's Handbook

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. Distribution: what existing networks can we latch onto for easier distribution (i.e., Examples include: Target customer: are these folks easy to find? Easy to sell to?

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

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. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better.

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The Interchange: Stripe takes a swing at Plaid

TechCrunch

Well, this past week, the company came out with an indirect response to the latter in the form of a blog post written by its CEO Maju Kuruvilla. In other words, incumbents in some cases need fintechs even as they compete with them. You can read all about it here. I wrote a story about how Truist , the sixth-largest bank in the U.S.