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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. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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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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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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