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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

It doesn’t matter how technologically difficult the innovation is, however: The established competitors almost always win the battles of sustaining technology. It is the business model and not the technology that enables and creates the disruptive effect. The innovation eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories. GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., GoDaddy’s rapid rise to prominence and continued success are due to a few key factors.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

It doesn’t matter how technologically difficult the innovation is, however: The established competitors almost always win the battles of sustaining technology. It is the business model and not the technology that enables and creates the disruptive effect. But the real innovation was making downloading digital music easy.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards recognize some of the most exciting tech developments in the connected world. The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. How long has this event been going on?

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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. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

There is a middle class that is growing due to the tech boom. In other words, consumer-facing startups are likely to find a grateful and sizeable audience within and beyond the city limits. Like in most fields related to starting a company, Austin punches above its weight when it comes to open-minded customers.

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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. All high quality applicants to IvyDate are reviewed by a Membership Committee. Founder Ian Shea has 8 years of internet/tech experience with ReplayTV. Click here to buy tickets.