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Technology entrepreneurship and the disruption of ambition
It is this upward mobility that makes disruptive technologies so dangerous to established firms—and so attractive to entrants.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Working in technology means one thing above all else: chasing scale. There is a reason why much of the tech world is obsessed with growth. Free from physical constraints, digital systems can scale to an incomprehensible size. The appeal of conquering the engineering, design and business challenges of mega-scale is strong, the rewards immense. But u
... See moreThus the redistribution of power from the inside to the outside of organizations and the rise of the multitude are changing the game. Openness in the Entrepreneurial Age is quite different from globalization in the Dark Ages of financialization. The global world of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s was dominated by giant, bureaucratic corporations. As it
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
"One of the reasons I first started The Generalist was because I believe that the great epics of our era will occur in the tech sector . No other field asks – and tests – so many consequential philosophical, psychological, and societal questions so frequently. What is money? What makes something valuable? Will nations exist in the cloud? Can we hac... See more
Mario Gabriele • Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist
Visionaries drive the high-tech industry because they see the potential for an “order-of-magnitude” return on investment and willingly take high risks to pursue that goal. They will work with vendors who have little or no funding, with products that start life as little more than a diagram on a whiteboard, and with technology gurus who bear a disco
... See moreGeoffrey A. Moore • Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)
The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
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