Industrialist’s Dilemma — Session 9
This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Medium.
As we entered our final class session for the quarter we tackled one last industry dealing with astronomical changes — the movie and television sectors of the media industry. Similar to
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Industrialist’s Dilemma — Session 7
This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Medium.
We had hoped that when we arrived to this section of the course we would get to see differences between “disruptors” and “disruptees” that were simultaneously substantive and subtle in nature.
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This article was written by XSeed Capital Executive-In-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on TechCrunch.
With each of the six biggest global consumer technology companies now deeply invested and feverishly in development, VR/AR has become too big to fail. Facebook Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR (powered by Oculus), Google Cardboard and its Magic Leap investment
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Industrialist’s Dilemma — Session 5
This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Medium.
This week the class transitioned from the “disruptors” to the “disruptees,” and gave us the opportunity to speak with our first guest on how his large industrial era firm is coping
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One of XSeed’s recent Executives-in-Residence (EIR) and former portfolio executive, Sharon Goldstein, shared some insights about her career, her time at XSeed as an EIR and new position at ShipHawk.
Tell us a bit about you:
I’ve always been drawn to audacious opportunities with high barriers to entry. My first role out of business school was as
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This article was written by Box Chief Executive Officer, Aaron Levie, and XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on TechCrunch.
Ford made headlines at CES this week when it announced a major partnership that will integrate Amazon’s technology into its cars, also following rumors that the company is working
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We are extremely excited to announce that Lex Machina has been acquired by LexisNexis of the RELX Group (NYSE:RELX). XSeed could not be happier for the management team and employees who built a company that is enabling lawyers and corporations to use data analytics to figure out how to make business decisions in ways that were previously impossible to do.
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on Forbes.
Will Elon Musk’s navigation from near-bankruptcy to becoming the first new public American car company started in nearly a hundred years end with Model 3?
RecapIn a previous post, I introduced the “Clever-Foolish 2×2” behind
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This XSeed article was written by Theresa Johnston and originally appeared on the Stanford Graduate School of Business website.
Say you’re an entrepreneur and your product is getting little traction. You could go back to the drawing board and re-engineer it. It might make more sense, though, to rethink your market, says venture capitalist Alan Chiu
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This XSeed blog was written by Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger, and originally appeared on Forbes.
If the Clever-Foolish 2×2 is Silicon Valley’s strategic playbook, here is how Mark Zuckerberg has employed it in the past, and will employ it long into the future.
RecapIn a previous post, I introduced the
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