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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Richard De Silva started off as a journalist with the Washington Post after growing up in D.C. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. 1:00 – 3:40).

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Reservationhate

This is going to be BIG.

Napster was totally cool because you got free music, which all us regular people and poor college kids love, while sticking it to The Man (record labels). So instead of dismissing the idea with such disgust, you could have just as easily said, "Hey, this doesn''t work at scale, because restaurants will just start checking IDs.".

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The Future of Music: How Generative AI Is Transforming the Music Industry

Andreessen Horowitz

Similar to how instruments, recorded music, synthesizers, and samplers all supercharged the number of creators and consumers of music when they were introduced, we believe that generative music will help artists make a similar creative leap by blurring the lines between artist, consumer, producer, and performer.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Part 1/3 of Interview: The Beginnings of Mike’s Entrepreneurial Journey [ Minutes: start – 13 ]. Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. Thank you, John.

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Digital Health Becoming a Reality

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But when I read thoughtful pieces on the future of technology I start to imagine where our lives will be in 10 years. Yet 2010 is already showing me how connected our lives and our health are starting to become. It was a revelation to me how big my portion sizes had become relative to what the portion sizes listed on labels were.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach. The government has already given them millions in grants so it’s a good start. Ambitious goals.

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