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5 Stages of Disruption Denial Cause A Startup Dilemma

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APRIL 18, 2022

It’s time to review the classic article on HBR “ The Five Stages of Disruption Denial ,” by Grant McCracken, comparing technology adoption to Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: Confusion. There are many people who don't get the new technology, and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we're not "falling for it."

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What the 5 Stages of Grief Teach Us About Technology

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JULY 19, 2019

It’s time to review the classic article on HBR “ The Five Stages of Disruption Denial ,” by Grant McCracken, comparing technology adoption to Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: Confusion. There are many people who don't get the new technology, and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we're not "falling for it."

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Founded by Shawn Gold (ex-MySpace CMO). Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2014

I saw an article a while back on HBR “ The Five Stages of Disruption Denial ,” by Grant McCracken, comparing technology adoption to Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: Confusion. There are many people who don''t get the new technology, and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it."

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5 Stages of Technology Adoption Compared To Grieving

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2017

It’s time to review the classic article on HBR “ The Five Stages of Disruption Denial ,” by Grant McCracken, comparing technology adoption to Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: Confusion. There are many people who don't get the new technology, and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we're not "falling for it."

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Startups Should be Wary of Disruptive Technologies

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2013

I saw a recent article on HBR “ The Five Stages of Disruption Denial ,” by Grant McCracken, comparing technology adoption to Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: Confusion. There are many people who don''t get the new technology, and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it."

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Competitors: OneRiot , Topsy , Crowdeye , Twitter Summize.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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MARCH 1, 2010

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. We have all the people who came out of eHarmony; who came from MySpace and Overture and PriceGrabber and Lastminute.com and Shopzilla and CitySearch and all these places. What is happening in L.A. today that drives the startup community?

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JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. . TechCrunch article. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. It’s true that MySpace didn’t become Facebook, but it did spawn 7 or 8 great LA companies run by founders with experience.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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MAY 5, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. We have all of the 2nd-time entrepreneurs from Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, etc. I’m in Seattle this week. Of course I have.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices. Because they are anti-competitive most countries ban cartels.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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JULY 10, 2011

DataSift = platform for companies to develop cost-effective applications using this Twitter data to gain advantage relative to their competition. Twitter is not replacement for Facebook (or vice versa) and while it is competitive it is mostly competing for: user time, brand dollars and 3rd-party development resources.

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Ten Common Arrogance Traps for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

Just because you included all the features of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn in your new social networking product, doesn’t mean everyone will love it. That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. Your funding request will likely go into the circular file.

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