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벼랑 끝에서 돌아온 벤처자본 |
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| "동트기 전이 가장 어둡다." 오늘날 벤처자본 산업을 빗댈 때 이보다 더 적절한 표현은 없다. 과거 60년 전과 비교했을 때, 상황은 매우 암담해 보인다. 이렇게 된 이유는 엄청난 기회를 포착하길 기다리던 기술 거품이 정점에서 폭발했기 때문이다. 그렇다면 향후 벤처자본에 대한 전망은 어떠할까? 기업과 투자, 경제 전반에 대한 의미를 짚어보자.
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Resilience Is the De |
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| Most business executives have traditionally viewed business models as static constructs that work on a simple input-output method. And yet today, because of a variety of forces, from globalization to the information revolution, companies are being forced to face the fact that nothing is static anymore. All systems, including business models and strategies, are dynamic and ever-evolving. |
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Location-Based Techn |
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| When General Motors introduced OnStar in some of its Cadillac models in 1996, it was pioneering an industry known as location-based services ?or LBS. Because of the existence of global positioning satellites that can triangulate the position of a GPS transmitter anywhere in the world, GM had the idea that roadside assistance and other services could be delivered to drivers in their cars on a subscription basis. |
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A New Internet Boom |
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| Very few companies get to a point where their names become both a noun and a verb in everyday parlance. In the 1960s, Xerox achieved that feat. But, the only company to come close to that achievement in recent times is Google. |
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The Media Transforma |
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| To understand where we’re going, it helps to understand where we’ve been. If you bought a new car 10 years ago, it came standard with a cassette deck, but a CD player was a somewhat expensive option. If you buy a new car today, it comes standard with a high-end CD player, but a cassette tape deck is an expensive and almost useless option. The cassette tape, which revolutionized the way we listen to and share music with others, is dead. |
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