Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 11, 2011
What a great way for a guy like me stuck in the 90′s on music to get curated music while I do other stuff. It’s just a fad propped up by the Silicon Valley elite marketing machine.” I talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction. “It will never work.
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 1, 2013
Having the same strategy as everyone else makes it hard to differentiate and generate outsize returns. According to pandodaily , as well as being focused we are also contrarian: Silicon Valley has run away from the ecommerce category. Proprietary product or uniquely curated experiences. Operational excellence.
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
And one very exciting example for us, an early example and an easy win, was our teachers really needed a way to differentiate and personalize instruction for students, because when you''ve got 25 students and they''re all in different places, how do you meet their individual needs? It''s humanly impossible.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 17, 2017
He’s spent the last four years in Silicon Valley out of uniform continuing that work. Solution 2: Use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model to differentiate among the three types. We’d add a new category, Horizon 0, which kills ideas that are not viable or feasible (something that Silicon Valley is tremendously efficient at doing).
ReadWriteStart
MAY 3, 2011
Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.
pandodaily.com
JULY 18, 2012
But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. The Smart People Can Denounce Bravo's Silicon Valley All They Want. 25 comments.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. might have been a lot less differentiated. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. companies versus the Web 1.0
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