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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.” Along with new competition comes new opportunity.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 23, 2023
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. Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I’ve gone through this discovery process for dozens of startup ideas, potential features, and market opportunities.
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Y Combinator
JANUARY 21, 2021
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. There is a clear opportunity to upend the status quo, but its intricacies have made freight one of the toughest sectors in which to build an online marketplace.
Haystack
JUNE 5, 2018
Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. As Garry Tan observes , the GitHub outcome demonstrates the true power of building relevant products for developers.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
.&# 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. Market Opportunity. But what about markets?
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. In the current structure I cannot see how Hulu becomes this company.
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 allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything!
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