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Entrepreneurial innovations, those undertaken by lone individuals, looked like they would be permanently marginalized. If you were smart enough and wanted to make a difference through technology, the corporate labs were where you had to be. The nineteenth century was the century of entrepreneurial tinkerers and lone scientists; the twentieth was

Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

Incentivized Referrals—An Uber user invites a friend to receive $10 in credit. That friend joins Uber as a result.

Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million

A few months ago I was at a conference where Robin Hanson spoke about prediction markets.[1] He argued that given how much of companies' outcomes are driven by who they choose to hire, and how non-rigorous the process of selecting employees and revisiting those selections is, there's a literal trillion-dollar opportunity in getting it right.... See more

Byrne Hobart • How Many Trillion-Dollar Companies Should There Be?

‎Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society on Apple Podcasts

Daniel Gross podcasts.apple.com

Bryan Roberts at Venrock, another top-tier VC, tries to spot potential category kings early.

Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, • Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

Venture capitalists in particular pay a lot of attention to the defensibility of a startup. They want to make sure that when they invest in a company, the next company that comes along with a similar idea is going to have a hard time catching up. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, takes the notion even further: startups, he says,

Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

To the boutique investors, this interface is addressed by scouring college campuses and builder communities. They are looking for outliers; the people with ideas so outlandish that it may not have even occured to them to seek investment yet. The pool of opportunity grows, and you may win more of it.

Venture Capital is Not Competitive - Credistick

How to build a unicorn in the employer-university collaboration space

Jan Lynn-Matern medium.com

It’s unusual for someone to consciously combine discovering true facts and executing to acquire sufficient distribution, via money or followers. You need to learn how to make media clips and movies, write, publish, direct, encapsulate, build relationships, and build political coalitions; you need to learn how to fight.