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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. And so they never got consumer adoption.

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Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt

TechCrunch

Morgan’s head of digital investment banking and digital private markets, will join us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Before joining JPMorgan, Elanjian spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, where his team led the strategy development and implementation for market structure and financial technology investments.

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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

TechCrunch

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20.

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District of Innovators: Takeaways From DC Startup Week

Revolution

The takeaways : It takes a village to foster a strong startup ecosystem; While there is no hard and fast science to building a community where startups thrive, several factors play an essential role: local media, corporations, accelerators and incubators, startups and tentpole companies, universities, local government, and investors; Tapping into the (..)

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

TechCrunch

The executive has a background in strategy and management consulting that progressed into a career in product development for top tech companies like Google and Amazon. So YC viewed this as a major disruptive play. When we met, I think the breakthrough was just the unique story. Is that still a good method?

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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How to Choose the Right Business to Start

American Entrepreneurship

This is particularly true of industries where technology is disrupting business models. Innovative Startups versus Replicative Business Models Conduct a market test of a business idea, if the business being started will introduce innovations that may disrupt and industry.