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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

Construction equipment and disk-drive manufacturing required heavy machinery, distribution facilities, and immense amounts of working capital. In today’s world the most pointed disruptive threats look different. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They are not asset-heavy. They are asset-light.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier.