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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Hoque notes the company’s ongoing success with blockbuster medicines and vaccines with household names, such as Zithromax, Lipitor and Viagra. A key to disruptive innovation is that, opposed to sustaining innovation, it does not take place with established competitors , as Christensen explains in Harvard Business Review.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Hoque notes the company’s ongoing success with blockbuster medicines and vaccines with household names, such as Zithromax, Lipitor and Viagra. Customers flocked to Apple, and the company had record-breaking profits with its hardware, software and service. But the real innovation was making downloading digital music easy.

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Sphero Has Shipped!

Feld Thoughts

My little buddy, the robotic ball controlled by your smartphone named Sphero, has shipped and you can order a Sphero now ! There were a lot of questions on the selection committee because it wasn’t a typical software thing. “These guys are hardware hackers – will we have good mentors for them?”

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. I started Rising Star Reviews because I’ve always had a passion for helping small businesses.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

blog.teamtreehouse.com

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Ben Gremillion ● CSS3 , Learn to Code , Make a Website. They also have varying definitions of “mobile,” which I found while reviewing 15 responsive grid systems. I reviewed 15 responsive CSS frameworks to see how each approached the problem of adapting to mobile.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few.