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VC investment strategies make a slightly more sense when you consider what the real definition of Disruption is...Permalink On twitter.com
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Disruption: Unsustainable driving down of product/service to lowest possible price point using other people's money to bankrupt competitors.Permalink On twitter.com
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Disruption: Using unsustainable business practice to drive competitors out of industry, take their customers & return price point to >= origPermalink On twitter.com
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When you realize this, you realize that VCs invest in companies in industries they believe are filled with easily destroyed competitorsPermalink On twitter.com
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So really VC is like a brute force attack: Hope that if you expend all your energy & $ gracelessly smacking everyone you'll be last standingPermalink On twitter.com
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This is why VC-backed media is inherently offensive. It simultaneously displays complete contempt for existing orgs and works to defeat themPermalink On twitter.com
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It's also why VC-backed cos are so hard to defeat. You have to defend and attack and they can overextend themselves into an attack w/no riskPermalink On twitter.com
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And this is why we've yet to really see a VC backed media org stand up on its own...Permalink On twitter.com
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The central disruptive theory of VC backed media, that they'll down all the big players and stand alone, is inherently flawed. They won't.Permalink On twitter.com
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But by VC-backed media playing by a different set of rules, one in which they can spend more while earning less, they hurt everyone.Permalink On twitter.com
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Inevitably, VC-backed media is a kamikaze run at the industry. Which is why they hope for acquisition.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's either acquisition by big media or 1 day you overextend & collapse when VC decides today they don't catch your badly balanced media coPermalink On twitter.com
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The irony is that while they're pounding on the shields of the establishment, they are making it harder for anyone to acquire them.Permalink On twitter.com
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Of course, there are a few exceptions. People who take VC and make stable companies. But most don't, because that *isn't* the point of VC.Permalink On twitter.com
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If you really want to make a stable company, you wouldn't be putting yourself in unrealistic debt to VC to do it. VC is for "disruption"Permalink On twitter.com
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This is a long way of saying Vox and Mic frustrate me to no end. How are journalistic ethics compatible with operating a business this way?Permalink On twitter.com
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Yeah, Elite Daily too aexm/813778242452803585Permalink On twitter.com
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See, the problem w/making your business about undercutting competition is, when you fail to do so, it costs & costs bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-loss-exceeds-800-million-in-third-quarter-on-1-7-billion-in-net-revenuePermalink On twitter.com
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The reason Facebook's moves in regard to news should be entirely expected is the modern tech company only sees external companies in 3 ways: Aquire Eventually Bankrupt by Duplicating Functionality Brings in users by extending tools that will be turned off once users are capturedPermalink On twitter.com
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Disruption is just building an unprofitable company in an attempt to create a monopoly by lying to your customers and then switching how much you charge them once you've eliminated consumer choices. nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-economy-startups.htmlPermalink On twitter.com
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'Disruption' is terrible and will probably destroy your favorite TV shows as it pushes HBO to race to the bottom - Chronotope/1016687003705008128Permalink On twitter.com
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Exactly: dansolomon/1024468425446440961Permalink On twitter.com
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The exact nature of 'disruption' is continually on display. Use a store of cash to undercut competitors and gatekeepers, absorb their clients, own the marketplace, give favors to those who comply. Can't wait for the Spotify subscription cost to go up again bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/spotify-to-musicians-let-us-be-your-labelPermalink On twitter.com
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The important thing to remember is this isn't about helping small artists, this is about making Spotify the only label that will give you real royalties... until they capture enough of the marketplace to stop doing so and leave you with no where else to go.On twitter.com
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The problem with this model is it is cancerous. It pushes out companies with legitimate models in which they can operate profitably and provide low prices. Who can compete with a suicidal business plan?Permalink On twitter.com
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It doesn't take a smart person to employ an economic brute force attack, and there's a reason this is the favored tactic of VCs, and it isn't because having money automatically makes you smart. moorehn/1218847032896638977?s=19Permalink On twitter.com
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