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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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Per Seat or Per Use Pricing: A Framework for Evaluating the Right Strategy for Your Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

Madhavan provided an excellent framework for answering this question, in addition to a multitude of other insights. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Those are some of the chestnuts from the session, and they provide a rough framework. Competition.

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Should Your Startup Differentiate On Pricing?

Tomasz Tunguz

Some companies want to change the world in one dimension: a better product or a disruptive go-to-market. But customers wanted the better product with the same pricing framework as the rest of the industry. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

TechCrunch

He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” . “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company.

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Breaking Down a Typical VC/Startup Diligence Process

Tomasz Tunguz

Business : In some form, I walk through the Business Model Generation framework: value proposition, key activities, key partners, major assets, channels of distribution, customer segments, cost structure and revenue streams. What kinds of moves are the incumbents making and how they change the market? Are they passionate?

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History of The MP3

Unvalidated Learnings

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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An actionable framework for founders bridging into web3

TechCrunch

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Blockchain is at its most powerfully disruptive when it supplies the missing link. can repair the attention-driven digital economy. What’s your web3 strategy?