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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Netflix launched in 1997 and its service wasn’t appealing to most of Blockbuster’s customers, who rented movies on impulse. But when Netflix went from movie deliveries through the mail to streaming services over the internet, it was then targeting Blockbuster’s core market.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Netflix launched in 1997 and its service wasn’t appealing to most of Blockbuster’s customers, who rented movies on impulse. But when Netflix went from movie deliveries through the mail to streaming services over the internet, it was then targeting Blockbuster’s core market.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I asked what the audience most needed to hear. This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. It was not very long ago that most people were unfamiliar with the Internet.

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Coinbase

Version One Ventures

Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam started Coinbase with the goal of making crypto currencies accessible to the largest possible audience and creating an open financial system for the world along the way. Relative to how the Internet developed, we might only be in 1997/98. And, our investment ended up as a multiple fund maker.

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How AI And Big Data Are Changing Century-Old Media Companies

YoungUpstarts

by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved.

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

" Since 1997, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) has armed senior executives with cutting edge talent improvement research and benchmarking. 650,000 people gain access to the Internet for the first time every day, 30,000 of which are in the U.S. Only 1 in 4 people has Internet access. Click here to buy tickets.