Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. 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. The incumbents curse.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

In the book Alien Thinking , three innovation professors at IMD Business School argue that people who generate truly breakthrough ideas look at their world like aliens–outsiders unburdened by the assumptions, biases and conventional thinking that constrain imagination. Two types of breaks can foster innovation.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

A recent study of Arizonas bioscience sector showed high marks for the progress made since the launch of the states strategic roadmap outlined in 2002 in support of its innovation ecosystem. Arizona’s bioscience sector continues to set a national example for how focused, long-term strategy can elevate an innovation ecosystem.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2014

The biggest opportunity to innovate is probably on the consumer facing side of things--the medium of creation. Tools like AWS, open source and web frameworks made the barriers to producing technology applications lower. That unleashed an explosion in innovation. Splice is doing similar work in the music space.

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JULY 16, 2014

That does not mean telling them how to run the company, but to help them create a management discipline--a framework for thinking about problems and solutions. Fifth , as I intend to be a long term participant in the innovation ecosystem, I have a role to support and champion the community at large.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Whether you believe in 1% conspiracies or not, most would agree that those in power want to stay in power and a complicated legal framework helps stall social innovation and maintains the status quo. Innovation wasn’t a priority for those who were fat and happy at the top of the pile.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

One-on-Ones and Feedback Structure your 1:1s : Use a four-part format covering performance, relationships, leadership, and innovation. 12 Questions to Find GReat Managers : Use frameworks like Gallup’s 12 questions to assess your effectiveness as a manager.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Read on to learn why Joachimsthaler believes this framework encourages innovation more than any other business model. Tesla has offered to share its innovative battery technology and other software with the automotive industry. How does the interaction field model boost innovation better than other existing models?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

But for many people the most important driver of innovation is this kind of visualization & self talk. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework. Who else is complicit and equally bound by The Innovator’s Dilemma

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning. Since ZBBs are developed from scratch every year and aren’t tied to previous budgets, this encourages creativity and innovation. Enter zero-based budgeting. <span </span> What is zero-based budgeting?

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Register Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation ( Mosti ) plans to push emerging technology and promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education within the framework of Budget 2024. Minister Chang Lih Kang has outlined these focus areas in Mosti’s budgetary proposals.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Flickr touched off a slew of socially based services and opened up an era of innovation that lasted for nearly a decade. The key to success in these areas will be that each entrepreneur will have to adopt the framework that Github has presented for the nuances of their particular problem set.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The newly inaugurated base, “ Japan Innovation Campus,” is set to host offices for five startups, providing them with a dedicated space to operate. Japanese industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura emphasized the importance of the new base, stating that it will serve as a major innovation facility for Japan.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It was an opportunity to generate significant returns, momentum for rising startup markets, and innovation that would strengthen America’s dynamism and competitiveness. In a rapidly evolving business landscape, founder-market-geography fit serves as a multifaceted framework for assessing a startup’s potential.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 6, 2021

With the advent of technological innovations, including dedicated servers and cloud hosting, businesses of all shapes and sizes are shifting to a more digital way of working. You can adopt that framework to encourage cashless payments, too. Create a more secure framework for payments.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Madhavan provided an excellent framework for answering this question, in addition to a multitude of other insights. Those are some of the chestnuts from the session, and they provide a rough framework. Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use?

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A budget, on the other hand, provides a financial framework for the startup’s operations. Callaghan Innovation has a number of grants for Kiwi startup businesses. It’s about developing new products, enhancing existing ones, or creating innovative processes that give you a competitive edge.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2012

The iPhone meant that a ton more devs needed to learn all sorts of new code, without the benefit of having prior frameworks and shortcuts. Despite the app building apps, new development platforms like mobile reverse this trend.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Use a podcast readiness framework Think you’re ready to launch a branded podcast? My company offers this framework that includes core questions to ask during your process to help ensure that you’re being intentional. The secret winning ingredient for branded show creation is intention.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2021

To this end, the conscious capitalism movement provides a framework that includes four interconnected disciplines. Driven primarily by service to the firm’s purpose, rather than by power or money, conscious leaders inspire, foster innovation and transformation, and bring out the best in those around them. Higher purpose.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund , which closed with commitments of $101 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst ‘s $400 million Fund II. Both firms are led by women, Clara Brenner and Julie Lein at Urban Innovation Fund, and Brooke Kiley over at VMG.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 12, 2023

Register Leading entrepreneurs and investors gathered at the ORIGIN Conference, a side event of the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) 2023, to discuss and emphasize the importance of balancing a sustainable future with business profitability in Southeast Asia.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The 4 states of an engineering team is a mental model that resonated with me, and I think it provides a framework for leadership teams and boards to understand the state of a developer team. Innovating - craft enough slack in the system to enable the team to transition to this phase, invest in good quality code.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A scalable business model refers to a framework that enables a company to increase revenue without a proportionate increase in operational costs. Your leadership team should be aligned with the companys mission and committed to fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. What Is a Scalable Business Model?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

EO has a framework for sustainability and how it will become net positive by 2030. Innovation moves way faster than people and the systems we are embedded in, so patience and perseverance are necessary traits for any entrepreneur embarking on world-changing innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

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. I was influenced by Clay’s work and Fred Wilson has also said that he, too, was influenced by him.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

University entrepreneurship and innovation centers that partner with the community to provide tools, facilities and education to local business owners. The conversation introduced a new framework for inclusive community development that incorporates cultural understanding, talent development and new venture creation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 29, 2020

A Framework to Understand People. I find that it’s easiest to start with a framework, such as the one below. INNOVATORS. INNOVATORS. Much like the Innovators, Managers will ask questions such as “What If?” Much like Managers, Innovators will ask “What If?”. Don’t worry, I’m asked this question a lot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I believe that market conditions drive innovation as much as great entrepreneurs do. I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Add unemployment to debt. These types of trends are unsustainable.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Privacy data management innovations reduce risk, create new revenue channels. Conventional DLP solutions are built on a castle-and-moat framework in which data centers and cloud platforms are the castles holding sensitive data. Conventional DLP frameworks are incapable of addressing these challenges.

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Impact Hub

MAY 23, 2022

Within the framework of the European Union-funded “Coworking spaces for social innovation” program, Impact Hub is joining the Greek Higher Incubator Giving Growth & Sustainability (HIGGS) and other key organisations from the region in a hybrid conference to wrap up a whole year of activities.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2020

Our portfolio company Coinbase released an open source framework for crypto asssets to make it easier to list them on crypto exchanges. An open source middleware framework like Rosetta should make it much easier for exchanges to list new assets and allow them to support new assets more quickly. It is called Rosetta.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. They are your sparring partners. They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley. Disappearing messages?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

There’s a clear line between copying everything a competitor does exactly and using frameworks outside while adding your own flavor — make sure you do the latter. Triple I Model The Triple I Model consists of three pillars: imitate, iterate, and innovate. I’m not saying you shouldn’t innovate.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

But like any framework and tool, when used badly it can cause issues, yet when used well, can build happy, high performing companies and teams. Essentially OKRs are a goal setting framework that supports and encourages those goal setting best practices. Pros & Cons To The OKR Framework. Top-Down & Bottom-up Goal Setting.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2020

It can be measured by how it changes the way people think and how they react to your product or service or innovation. But I can give you a framework because choosing what to invest in is a lot like choosing what to work on. But the framework is similar. That is an example of impact. One is an investment of money (and time).

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups are innovation machines. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. Others want to innovate in every dimension and re-invent every discipline from pricing to marketing to support to customer success. We wanted to be innovative.

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