Tag archives: disruption
Tag archives: disruption
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How did Lookout outmaneuver Symantec & McAfee?
One heck of an answer over at Quora – provides a thorough explanation of why big companies get disrupted by small companies over and over again.
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When does something become too big?
Good look at disruption from the standpoint of a small company growing up. Addresses the questions of why and when “small” companies become vulnerable to disruption from even smaller competitors.
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Clarke’s three laws
Came across these again just recently. Posting them here in full because they are just that good.
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Yesterday’s over
Classic Seth Godin – short and sweet, insightful, and inspirational.
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.”
-- Arthur C. Clarke, as quoted by Seth Godin in “Senior Management”
Fred Wilson on how startups can succeed in breaking the power of monopolies when the government fails to do so (as it often / always does).