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Small highly niched businesses will emerge as very profitable and fun places to be contributing.
Daniel Priestley • Key Person of Influence
The Redesigners
designobserver.com
When eBay, a small Internet auction company based in San Jose, California, sought venture capital, it had to pass an informal test administered by the venture guys before they would consider making an investment: Was there a reasonably good likelihood that the investors could make ten times their money within three years? In
Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
a juggernaut of technological and cultural
Brant Cooper • The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets
Derek Thompson • Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
As with AdSense, big is not where the leverage is. Rather this new corner of ad space liberates the small to middle—a billion businesses who would have never thought of, let alone ever got around to, developing a cool advertising campaign. With a peer-to-peer system, these ads would be created by passionate (and greedy) users and unleashed virally
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Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
even established companies must struggle to find new sources of growth through disruptive innovation.
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
pivote de plataforma. En lugar de vender la aplicación a un consumidor cada vez, David vislumbró un nuevo modelo de crecimiento inspirado en la plataforma AdWords de Google. Creó una plataforma de ventas de autoservicio donde cualquiera pudiera convertirse en consumidor usando la tarjeta de crédito.