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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Many successful venture capitalists observe directional patterns.

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Many successful venture capitalists observe directional patterns.

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The Get-Big-Quick Fallacy

Harvard Business Review

If you are a growth-obsessed startup and venture capital financing dries up and buyers grow scarce, you can run out of money. We know that the answers we''ll get are nothing more than hypotheses, which will change as the venture gains experience in the market. A pure focus on growth carries risks. Entrepreneurship Strategy'

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. Investing in an entrepreneur is a lot like falling in love. It was devastating.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze."

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. I do agree with your basic premise though. Thanks David.

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