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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market. It is not a beach novel to be sure. It is often LESS performant.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

I opened up an office for them, doing early stage selling, then I built a client services department for HotJobs, and then after Yahoo acquired them, I moved back into sales, in Sales Management, and I helped manage and rebuild a team in San Francisco. A customer development person is a cross between a sales person and a product marketer.

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The eCommerce Game Goes to Austin

Tech Zulu Event

Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that three of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub. It’s as subtle, yet important, as the distinction between “social marketing” and “social media.”

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How ScoreStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

socalTECH

While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market. We came up with several things that were characteristics of the sports market, number one being that it was a place that venture capitalists were just not excited about.

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How SportStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

socalTECH

While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market. We came up with several things that were characteristics of the sports market, number one being that it was a place that venture capitalists were just not excited about.

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