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Clayton Christensen

Steve Blank

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. The focus on sustaining products leaves an opening for new startups with “good enough” products (and willing to initially take lower profits) to enter underserved or unserved markets. And then they’d move upmarket into the incumbents’ markets. Eye Opening.

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What is Wrong With Today's CMS

www.readwriteweb.com

I started using my first content management system around 1997, when things were crude and clumsy. Then something happened to the CMS market, and a more democratic and user-led effort began with the rise of the blog. You would think in the past 15 or so years time would heal all and improvements would be made, but you would be wrong.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. First of all the cases where the integration of the new small agile and innovative company into a large corporate worked are few and far between. Interviews are Applications.

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Tacking Towards Founder

Agile VC

Rather it’s usually an underdeveloped sense of a market opportunity worth pursuing or a desire to gain more experience before trying to launch a company. But you may be able to gain either industry expertise that’s relevant to being a founder and/or functional expertise in marketing, sales, operations, etc.

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A Conversation With John Bradberry, Author Of 6 Secrets To Startup Success (Part III)

YoungUpstarts

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. In the startup phase, there is this healthy tension between the need to make things happen and the need for agility.