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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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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. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. An obvious example of this is oDesk. Will this Trend Last? In my mind there is no doubt this a lifetime trend. That always happens.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

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I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. So how should you decide what to do?

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Interview with Asher Hunt, Overnight

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It's quite a different framework from an Airbnb or HomeAway. I was just starting out in mobile app development, and a friend of mine was just starting out as a VC at Greycroft. So do you this a lot of this is driven by a generation shifting to more of an on-demand, Uber-style lifestyle? How did the idea come about for Overnight?

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How Many Investors are Too Many?

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When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. I love that. And it’s kind of true.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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As a VC it’s how I think through which markets will be attractive in the future, which ones I want to be in now and how the technology & business world will likely evolve. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities. Leaders are intelligent, for sure. ON SUCCESS.

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