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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. Innovation has changed the way people live, work and do business. Businesses can focus on two types of innovation: sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. It has changed the way people live, work and do business. Businesses can focus on two types of innovation: sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. It was not very long ago that most people were unfamiliar with the Internet.

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When Microsoft Threatened to Sue Us Over the Letter “E”

Steve Blank

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter “E” with a swoop over it. Internet Explorer. property of Microsoft.

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How AI And Big Data Are Changing Century-Old Media Companies

YoungUpstarts

by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. Old Media Models Are Melting Down.

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Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1

Reid Hoffman

I’ve been on so many different boards now that I need to go back and count them up to name the number of different boards on which I’ve served. One of the reasons I joined Greylock is that I shared the firm’s philosophy on investors and entrepreneurs: namely, companies succeed because of the entrepreneurs and executives, not the investors.

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