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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. It's media disintermediation at work!

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

It’s a line that venture capitalist and Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has trotted out a few times lately, attributing it to his former colleague Jim Barksdale. Barksdale: I think we use the term “disintermediate” a lot more than we do “unbundle from these terrible corporations.” But new bundles keep appearing.

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