Building a Business
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Disruption
Overturning the status quo is deceptively simple. Apply these questions to your business idea to find out whether you're a disruptor.
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Tech
Technologies Like 3-D Printing, Live Stream and Virtual Reality Have Facilitated Fantastic New Business Opportunities
For entrepreneurs who know an opportunity when they see it, new business ideas based on cutting-edge tech are always right around the corner.
By Sherry Gray
Building a Business
How This Entrepreneur Rose From the Ashes to Challenge Silicon Valley
When Alex Lidow was a personal and professional low, he decided to climb back up by disrupting that technological building block, the semiconductor.
By Steve Tobak
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10 Top Startup Communities in Silicon Valley
All of these organizations are designed to fuel the next round of disruptive products and services that are driving a sustainable national economy.
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3 New Truths About Millennials and Their Careers
We don't need college, we don't have to pay our dues, and making money doesn't have to be hard.
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How Scrappy Startups Are Battling Corporate Juggernauts
As startups in the enterprise space deal with David-and-Goliath dynamics, they're honing their weapons to overcome the giants' advantages.
By Tx Zhuo
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7 Startup Strategies to Gain From Your Limitations
Focusing your budget on your most expensive projects and finding partners who complement your strengths are just a couple of smart business strategies.
Building a Business
What Sears Taught Amazon About Business
Sears' 1800s innovations and market disruption model are still at the core of retail behaviors today. Retail companies would be wise to study this history.
By Zach Ferres
Marketing
5 Ways to Capture Audience Attention and Drive Content Performance
Legitimizing your reputation and really getting to know potential customers are only a couple of ways to make sure your content is effective.
Building a Business
10 Growth Hacks That Will Disrupt Your Industry
The smartest entrepreneurs spot a trend and improve on it, or even give it away free.
By Neil Patel
Thought Leaders
The Principles One Man Used to Innovate Financial Services
Elliot Weissbluth started HighTower to put clients before products. And he did it in the middle of a recession.
By Tracy Byrnes
Business Ideas
11 Ways to Bake Innovation — Not Disruption — Into Your Culture
Here's how to ensure everything is in order inside the box before you start shaking it up.
By Walter Bond
Building a Business
Disrupt This: How Entrepreneur is Walking the Walk When It Comes to Innovation
We don't want to just write about disruption, we want to embody it.
By Amy Cosper
Building a Business
How One Firm Is Taking a Different Approach to Helping Startups Fight Regulation
Tusk Ventures is the consultancy behind Uber's successful fight against NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.
By Dan Primack
Business News
The 12 Disruptive Tech Trends You Need to Know
McKinsey's in-house think tank compiled a cheat sheet for the future of tech.
Tech
3 Lessons for Introducing Disruptive Technology
Could you wash your car with less than a cup of water? These guys can.
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Elon Musk: ‘I’m Not Really a Fan of Disruption’
Disruption only happens when people try to develop 'fundamentally better' options, he said.
By Jacob Pramuk
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How Disruptive Startups Spread the Wealth by Encouraging Derivative Businesses
Genuinely revolutionary companies create opportunities for yet more startups. The shrewdest disruptors embrace the process to create a bigger market for everyone.
By Sohin Shah
Thought Leaders
Disruption Is More Than the Buzzword It’s Become
Looking for opportunity? Check to see where the stagnant reside.
By Amy Cosper
Business Ideas
Why the Consumer and Finance Industries Are Ripe for Disruption
As big and important as these sectors are to our daily lives, innovation is seriously lagging.
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Fed Up With Bad Bouquets, These Friends Created the ‘Etsy for Flowers’
Business is blooming for three friends who started BloomNation, a marketplace for locally designed, hand-delivered floral arrangements.
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5 Tips to Create an Innovative Market Disrupter, From the Man Taking on Bloomberg
One company's innovative product could cause waves in the $30 billion financial data services market.
Business Operations & Logistics
3 Industries Entrepreneurs Can Disrupt With the ‘Internet of Things’
Wireless technology presents a huge opportunity to change how we handle many everyday tasks.
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Has the Disruption Metaphor Outlived Its Purpose?
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen tried to bring attention to the concept in 17 tweets. But perhaps entrepreneurs need a new rallying cry.
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A Disruptor Shakes Up Angel Investing
By connecting institutions with the earliest-stage startups, AngelList is upending the system.
By Dan Primack
Building a Business
Why You Should Hire Only Flexible Minds
At startups and elsewhere, the desired players are those ready to be versatile and respond to the inevitable disruption and change.
Tech
The Idea That Disruption Is Dead Is a Myth
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of how tech revolutions and change actually work.