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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Their choices included fighting Samsung for market share with all of the downstream implications that that would undoubtedly have on their revenues, margins and share price, alternatively they could work diligently to innovate new products for the mass market or they could choose to do both.

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The Right Way to Do Lean Research

Boxes and Arrows

Christina has been cross-teaching design to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship to designers at institutions such as California College for the Arts, General Assembly, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, and Stanford. Or you could gauge whether you’re likely to have a big enough market with audience building.

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The rise and rise of Entrepreneurs

Matthew Griffin

Entrepreneurs have faster and easier access to funding, expert resources, advanced manufacturing and prototyping techniques and rapid routes to market and when you connect billions of people together the next great idea and the means to resource, develop and sell it are merely a click away. Start your turn early. Conclusion.

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The secrets behind building a Unicorn

Matthew Griffin

The billion dollar startup was once the stuff of myth but now they’re everywhere, backed by a bull market and founded on new, disruptive digital technologies and business models which make their speed of operation, rate of innovation and reach that much greater. Their idea solves an existing, mass market problem.

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Banks: Too large to fail, easy to Disrupt

Matthew Griffin

Technology is having a democratising effect on Entrepreneurship – it’s lowered the bar to entry and it’s shifted the power away from the corporations and into the hands of the individual. In todays digitally connected world I’m increasingly seeing that organisations that are blinkered by old 20th Century assumptions die by them.

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The death of the 20th Century corporation

Matthew Griffin

However, while many organisations know that the people who could help them create the next blockbuster or break the next market sit outside their walls they also knew that unless they could find and hire them then that IQ would remain tantalisingly out of reach. Six degrees is now four. The growth of the internet changed all that. Conclusion.

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The Banks Guide to scouting Fintech

Matthew Griffin

Over the past five years though almost every one of the new 174 disruptive Unicorns who’ve collectively created new markets worth over $1.5 When Nikon and Cannon were reviewing the market for new competitive threats do you think they investigated the mobile phone companies?