Category: Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship in Filthy, I mean, Philly
January 20th, 2010, No Comments
I’ve been following the conversation that’s been going on Blake’s blog and on twitter about entrepreneurship in Philly and I wanted to vent because the ’state of Philly’ is something that I think about a great deal, being a Temple University student and all. Let me preface my comments with: I greatly respect my startup [...]
“The Innovator’s Dilemma” and Consumer Sovereignty: A Means and Ends Misunderstanding
August 17th, 2009, 1 Comment
In “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and again in “The Innovator’s Solution”, Clayton M. Christensen argues that companies in face of disruptive innovation sometimes have “to stop listening to its best customers so that it could instead pay attention to raw new markets.” I will argue, however, that firms never have to ‘stop listening’ to their best customers but instead that they must not look to fill their customers ‘means’ but instead to fill their ‘ends’.
