This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review and was co-authored by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, co-founder and CEO of Box, Aaron Levie, and general manager of SAP.io, Maxwell Wessel.
When most of the great companies of the industrial era were founded, even the most brilliant economists believed deeply in the law
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XSeed Capital is excited to announce the April 6 book launch of Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That’s Disrupting the World, written by XSeed Executive-in-Residence, Mike Hoefflinger. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 3.
In the summer of 2009, Silicon Valley’s (and my) past met its (and my) future.
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This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review and was co-authored by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, co-founder and CEO of Box, Aaron Levie, and general manager of SAP.io, Maxwell Wessel.
As automation and digitization transform the economy, well-resourced incumbents in industry after industry are losing out to upstarts. Traditional retailers that have entered the
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It’s Not Even Financial
This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Fortune.
A common challenge that many companies face at some point is the issue of too much financial debt, which when used properly can be managed as an instrument to help a company
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We at XSeed have been thinking a lot about the near future – not about the deep and disruptive social and economic impacts of ongoing innovations in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems, deep learning, bots and robots, VR and AR (all areas where we have been deploying capital for some time). Rather, we’ve been thinking about where the current economic
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This article was written by XSeed Capital Partner, Robert Siegel, and originally appeared on Medium.
When the e-mail came in from a former Intel colleague that Andy Grove had passed away, I was caught completely off guard. While I had seen Parkinson’s Disease take many of Andy’s physical faculties, I did not expect him to
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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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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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