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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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I have written about Deflationary Economics (one of my most read posts ever) & The Innovator’s Dilemma before. Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Freemium. .”

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

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These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. It was obviously a joke and a reference to the supposed Bin 38 meeting. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going. That’s awesome.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

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It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. Amazon is emblematic of the sort of company that mostly disrupts industries *behind* the scenes.

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Invest in Lines, not Dots

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I have no reference point from which to judge whether you were higher on the y-axis 3 months ago or lower. You’ll be able to give them an update on key hires, pilot customers, key tech innovations – whatever. And remember, if we get married you’re stuck with us, too. Hopefully by then you’ve made good progress.

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Fintech and insurtech innovation in Brazil set to take off on regulatory tailwinds

TechCrunch

“Both Open Banking and Pix will level the playfield for new challenges, and we expect to see a lot of innovation around them,” Yoshimura said, referring to another of the Central Bank’s projects. But now, VCs and founders are actually praising the Central Bank for its initiatives and the opportunities it has created.

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15 sectors pi Ventures expects deep tech to disrupt in the next 5 years

TechCrunch

With so much of the startup news cycle focused on unprecedented funding round sizes and record amounts of time bootstrapping , we don’t often step back from the numbers to have a hard think about innovation. “We want to back disruptive innovation, rather than incremental innovation,” he said.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab.

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