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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. However each component will change dramatically.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

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[Asia] Getting Cloud Computing Right The First Time

YoungUpstarts

During the Forum, Cloud Computing was highlighted as the number one technology priority for companies in 2012. However, it is interesting to note that Cloud Computing in Asia will not evolve in the same way as the Western market due to the eagerness of Asia’s CIOs and business leaders to take the lead in adopting the latest IT innovations.

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Understanding the Importance of Board Transparency

Board Effect

Here are the top five things you can do to increase the transparency of your board: Reviewing and sharing financials and other data- Most likely, your organization is already doing this to some extent. For nonprofits, technology offers many avenues for storytelling, which effectively further nonprofit missions. That’s right!

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

ConversionXL

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

abovethecrowd.com

The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. The distribution techniques are completely new. But the combination of lock-in and a lack of a truly liquid new distribution hooks will favor the “new incumbent” mobile leaders.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Oracle—Larry Ellison. Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield.