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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. It helps us to continually revise our assumptions about the market, economy, and world. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. At first, Opus 12 targeted the largest addressable market it could find: ethanol, an additive of gasoline.

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VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start Up

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, GoViral was sold for $97 million, having never taken a single krone or dollar of investment capital. Investors don’t like risk any better than you do. If you’re raising money before traction is in hand, so-called “market risk” is higher than if demand has already been proven.