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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. 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.

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Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. 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.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. Thank you, global meltdown! As you may remember, I was lucky enough to have recieved, at your hands, the beating I so richly deserved back in 1997 while at ONETOUCH Systems. Life is good.

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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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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. In the 1990s the U.S. economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 million a year.

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[Review] Out-Executing The Competition

YoungUpstarts

build Compaq Financial Services (CFS) from its inception in 1997 into a global force with over $3.7 You’ll find out how Rothman help lead the transformation that enabled AT&T Capital to become the second-largest leasing company in the U.S.,

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