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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. The thesis of the book is that incumbents in markets – especially large and well entrenched markets – seldom survive fundamental technology changes in their industries. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

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They are a national practice but “it would be hard to see a local media success that Revolution isn’t part of&#. 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. I run Revolution’s VC investments.

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AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI

TechCrunch

Descript , the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which OpenAI and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage companies.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. .” Startup Lessons' Almost nobody believed and now look at it. 6SensorLabs.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

I think it was just this incredibly powerful technology, and given that AI wasn’t quite there yet, [social media] was the main thing that there was to do, to apply all the technology to. I think different startups will choose different paths here. You know, incumbents versus startups.

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

In fact, according to the 2018 year-end report by CREtech , funding for “proptech” startups has surged with over $20 billion invested across early and late stage venture rounds in the last two years?—?quickly quickly making real estate technology one of the fastest growing venture asset classes.

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Mexico’s Mendel secures $35M to tackle LatAm’s corporate spend management problem

TechCrunch

The Mexico-based startup closed the $15 million Series A round and $20 million debt financing after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. based corporate spend startup that in June closed a $60 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures and whose CEO is an investor. all these companies are targeting the startups/SMB sector.