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Clayton Christensen

Steve Blank

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. Christensen, writing for a corporate audience, explained that there were two classes of products – sustaining and disruptive. Christensen changed the trajectory of my career and was the guide star for my work on innovation. I never got to say thank you.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Working a full-time (and demanding) job, a home, school and life, in general, was no easy feat, so I chose to leave my corporate job to an academic job. 4- Started as a part-time work.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Specifically, as incumbents focus on improving their products and services for their most demanding (and usually most profitable) customers, they exceed the needs of some segments and ignore the needs of others.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Scholar and innovation expert Clayton Christensen explains it this way: A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Incumbents, chasing higher profitability in more-demanding segments, tend not to respond vigorously. Types of Disruptive Innovation.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. But, for VCs, it’s different.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. But, for VCs, it’s different.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. Yes, we’ll always want to encourage higher quality, but it won’t matter if we have crappy demand. The audience will be provided ample time to critique and ask questions of the UX designers.

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