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The Great Pessimism “Unless developed countries learn how to increase the productivity of knowledge workers and service workers, they will face economic stagnation and severe social tension” – Pete…| Disruption Observer
Startup investments are weird and very unlike picking stocks. Startups in a successful VC’s portfolio tends to follow an incredibly skewed distribution called a Power law distribution. The followin…| Disruption Observer
Two of the highly valued startups currently, Uber and AirBnB are platforms that turn highly underutilized assets into monetization opportunities for ‘sellers’. For example, take the cas…| Disruption Observer
When a new technology enabler arrives, entrepreneurs try to build businesses around it. And numbers of new startups really explode when the new technology enabler is sufficiently distributed to cus…| Disruption Observer
When looking for new business opportunities or new investment opportunities in startups, it is useful to think about the customer and the barriers they face with existing products and services (let…| Disruption Observer
By now, the statement ‘Data is the new oil’ has become a cliché. Amin Vahdat of Google said this, “The amount of bandwidth that we have to deliver to our servers is outpacing even Moore’…| Disruption Observer
Bill Gross of IdeaLab gave a small interesting TED talk titled ‘The single reason why businesses succeed’. He analyzed 200 successes and failures. The following was his answer to ‘the single reason…| Disruption Observer
Some incumbents are poor defenders against disruptive threats by new entrants. As a result when the opportunity arrives they are excellent targets for disruption. Four main categories come to mind:…| Disruption Observer
A. Introduction – Investing is not easy. You have to be Non-Consensus and Right Charlie Munger once said: “Investing’s not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid&…| Disruption Observer