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[...] deals that venture capitalists are in competition with each other. They spend their energies marketing themselves instead [...]

[...] products perform better–incremental innovation–you are pretty far along the S-curve. Venture capitalists, meanwhile, are thinking not about how big the market is today, or even how big the market [...]

[...] . The data was a bit noisy. Most of the people the algorithm returned are actually venture capitalists. It is unclear how many of the companies they report as investments are actually [...]

[...] . You will be able to do what every investor promises: add value. So why don’t all venture capitalists do this? Some do. Many venture firms have a “thesis” and some even stick to it. [...]

[...] . The first is: how hard is it to replicate your innovation? The second is: what do the complementary assets your business model requires look like and how important are they to the commercialization [...]

[...] earnest post, about learning humility, back when I still had it. The post Best of Reaction Wheel appeared first on Reaction Wheel. [...]

[...] thinking. The post Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation, MTI Class Two appeared first on Reaction Wheel. [...]

[...] series. The post The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous appeared first on Reaction Wheel. [...]

[...] 40% 54 Eniac Ventures 40% The post Midas List Feeder Firms, 2014 Edition appeared first on Reaction Wheel. [...]

[...] into the 2×2 chart in Innovator’s, emerging/established market and new/proven tech. Disruptive innovation is just one of these four quadrants, but I want to make the point that startups can start [...]

[...] (June 2010) I accept that the ad exchange is doomed and predict client direct. Disruptive innovation, buy vs. build, the most pernicious lie in business, and how to know if you’re [...]

[...] my time at Omnicom, starting an adtech company myself, advising both buyers and sellers of adtech companies, and doing more adtech rounds in the last five years than any other angel, I’ve been [...]

[...] with this model. You are putting your eggs in one basket. When my portfolio was primarily adtech companies, someone asked me what would happen if the government banned third-party cookies. The answer [...]

[...] existing wave had not run out of net valuable innovation. The post The Immediate Future for Adtech Startups appeared first on Reaction Wheel. [...]

[...] -June 1988 – Vol. 66, no. 3 ↩ This analysis adapted from Teece, D. Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy. [...]

[...] , is shifting its focus to more mundane investments that have little to do with technological innovation or creating new jobs. Discount stores, pizza shops, athletic apparel concerns and a host [...]

[...] found late in the cycle, it’s just more unlikely. And more than unlikely, whether a radical innovation will be accepted by the market is unknowable, so the entrepreneurial team needs to be [...]