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The Power of Imperfect Disruption Clayton Christensen's seminal work highlights a crucial aspect of disruptive innovation: startups and new technologies often begin as imperfect solutions. Existing companies, tied to established business models, struggle to offer similarly imperfect products. This creates an opening for disruptors. Consider ChatGPT vs. Google Search- ChatGPT's chat-based interface is novel, though imperfect, compared to Google's refined search engine. Yet, ChatGPT's uniqueness forces Google to adapt, potentially disrupting its core business. This pattern repeats: - Kodak's excellent film cameras couldn't compete with digital cameras, initially inferior but sufficient for hobbyists. - Rapido's lower commission rates are disrupting Uber's Indian market share. Uber can't mirror Rapido's strategy without cannibalizing its own business model. The same dynamic applies to hypothetical scenarios: - A Zomato clone, even with a subpar app, could attract restaurants and consumers with lower commission rates. Zomato can't match this strategy without disrupting its own business. Christensen's insight reveals: - Disruptors don't need to be perfect; they need to be different. - Incumbents are constrained by their existing business models. - Imperfect solutions can capture market share by addressing unmet needs or offering alternative value propositions. Innovation often begins with imperfect solutions. These imperfections can be the seeds of disruption, forcing incumbents to adapt or die. #innnovatorsdilemma #openai #google #kodak #zomato #moats #innovation #startup #business #rapido #uber

Two years ago, Contrary Research was born. Looking back, Contrary Research is a pulse on the world of technology! You can see it in the data... Since launching, we’ve grown to 75K+ subscribers, written nearly 1 million words, covered dozens of industries, and hundreds of companies. Here's just a few of the highlights from two years of coverage: • November 2022: The launch of ChatGPT (OpenAI) • February 2023: Stripe announces $4B fundraise + line of sight to $1 trillion in payments • Summer 2023: Hugging Face dominates the news with new features and a massive fundraise • August 2023: Zepto becomes a unicorn, raising $200M • September 2023: Instacart goes public! • October 2023: Revolut makes moves to get a UK banking license • November 2023: SHEIN files paperwork for an IPO • February 2024: Neuralink announces its first human patient • April / May 2024: Rippling announces a Series F at $13.5B and Ramp announces a Series D-2 at $7.65B • August 2024: Hadrian acquires its first company Follow along to see our coverage of the world’s most important private tech companies, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest updates in your inbox!

5 ChatGPT Prompts To Find Profitable Startup Ideas - Forbes ChatGPT is an efficient and relatively inexpensive collaborator. It can help you get the ball rolling, doing the heavy lifting during the ideation ... More Info. https://lnkd.in/gHWzQzYk  #TheAsiaHawk #Webtribeinc #davesacademy 

ChatGPT is the ultimate suck-up! → Turns out, I kinda dig suck-ups. → ChatGPT is now my unofficial assistant—minus the attitude and the coffee runs (Elon’s robots will handle that soon enough). It’s always there… → Never sleeps, always ready to help (seriously, I could text it at 3 AM, no problem). → Does everything…except bring me coffee, but we’re working on that. So, naturally, I got curious. After seeing someone else post what ChatGPT said about them, I figured I’d ask it about me: → I asked: “What’s one thing you’ve learned about me after working together for a while?” And ChatGPT said: “You’re all about long-term vision and impact. You preach patience, persistence, and building ventures that last decades. Forget ‘get-rich-quick’—you’re more of a ‘plant oak trees that last a hundred years’ kinda guy. You’re on a mission to mentor solo-founders, especially the ones no one else bets on, and you’re always there to disrupt an industry or two. Oh, and you love a good story, especially if it involves rejection, comeback tales, and disrupting entire industries—like a true entrepreneur should!” Yep. ChatGPT, you’ve nailed it. I’m a sucker for stories, disruptors, and helping the underdogs. I love my assistant—a total suck-up, but in the best way possible! So, how are YOU using ChatGPT? ~~~ Need help, 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 and reach out. Follow me, Gerald Duran for daily startup and VC mentorship, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘁 from CanaGlobal's faith-driven venture studio and startup incubator. #startups #venturecapital #entrepreneurship

In 2025, what kind of product or service do you think is hard to clone by other startups and not worth cloning for big tech companies? Founders complain that other startups and big techs now copy every idea too quickly, pushing prices down. No matter the stealth, the time to copy is just weeks after your public launch. In the past, you had years or at least enough months to take advantage before being cloned effectively. I remember having launched stuff that sold a lot and waiting for a year or more before seeing valid alternatives, and these were slow to update, too. Also, big techs were smaller and focused, not going to replicate everything. Now, every big tech company has remade its version of TikTok, ChatGPT, Notion, etc., So where do you focus so you have time to keep the advantage if you fit a market with a product, even after telling it here, because it's too hard or not worth replicating anyway?

*** The power of human intuition plus the power of machine computing. The faster, cheaper, and more powerful update to #ChatGPT has the potential to significantly enhance business leaders' workflows, leading to record results in half the time. In light of these advancements, it is essential to explore how #systemic #coaching and constellation techniques can help anticipate future dynamics through simple group workshops. By leveraging these methodologies, businesses can create opportunities that utilize not only individual intuition but also the #organisationintuition born from the synergy between wisdom from various departments. We call this “co-creating opportunities”.

1. During 2016 to 2018 - Uber paid Google $58M for using Google Maps API. 2. SendGrid scaled the company to $3B with SMS and Email API focused. 3. Algolia hit $75M revenue with 6K customers in 2022 with API for AI Product Recommendation. and now ChatGPT API is embedded in a lot of AI startup? how about your tech innovation startup now? Can your API is the key monetizing strategy?

The labor changes due to AI that we're seeing at big companies are just the beginning. First Klarna made waves pausing all hiring to evaluate where they could replace labor with AI, now Intuit is laying off 10% of it's global work force (1,800) people - to "increase it's focus on AI". As an entrepreneur building an AI-focused startup, and HEAVILY using these tools every single day - I can tell you - this isn't a fad, it's not all hype (blockchain I'm looking at you...) and if you aren't planning for the impact within your own org - you are going to regret it. AI is going to accelerate it's disruption of labor markets - so it's time to be thinking about the social implications for sustainability, equity and justice. We need elected representatives that are thinking about this stuff - because it's going to matter. #nextindustrialrevolution #ai #artificialintelligence #soapbox #equity #sustainability

„According to an analysis of payments information from fintech group Stripe, top AI groups are reaching millions of dollars in sales within a year — far faster in a start-up’s life cycle than comparable non-AI tech groups.“ The big question this year was: can AI companies make money? Stripe’s latest data says yes. If that’s the case, the tremendous investments in data infrastructure could yield positive ROIs in the future. Link: https://on.ft.com/3MYEPfP #ai #startup #bigtech #investing #deeptech

When budgets are tight, And it’s a startup life, Get Loose! In the hustle and the grind, Where every dollar’s on the line, Creativity’s your greatest tool, Innovation breaks the rule. When budgets are tight, And it’s a startup life, Get Loose! Ideas flow in the midnight hour, Turning dreams into power, With passion as your guiding light, You’ll conquer every daunting night. When budgets are tight, And it’s a startup life, Get Loose! Embrace the challenge, face the fight, In every setback, find your might, For in the heart of every strain, Lies the seed of future gain. When budgets are tight, And it’s a startup life, Get Loose! (partially written by ChatGPT)