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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. > -jeff.

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees. We hear about corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, that are blocked from making transformative discoveries.

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