Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

Thanks, everybody, I guess I have one more question before I try to respond to some these excellent comments: If you ARE (factual) or WERE (counter-factual) a technology startup, do you (would you) advertise yourself as a disruptor? What would the promotional THEORY behind doing so?

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

Pretty much anything "as in Star Trek" can serve as a metaphor to pretty much anything IRL. So, all you have to do is begin with, "Metaphorically, ..." And we have to allow for all of the incarnations, movies, TNG, DS9, Voyager, etc. We should even count

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

Enablers are things like an enabled (turned on) WarpCoil or Inertial Dampeners or Teleporters. Disrupters shoot stuff to blow up rocks. But I suspect nick or his friend don't mean as in from StarTrek. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Sure, mobile

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

Sure, mobile internet & cloud was a disrupter to the PC industry and to the business of selling analog landlines. Intel recently had layoffs of more than 10k workers as a result. From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 3:47 PM To:

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

Was the iPhone a disrupter? On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I’d say the folks that think a jackhammer is needed, aren’t a victim of > the folks with the concrete in a truck (that presumably pour it on anything > they can!), they *are* the sites

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

I’d say the folks that think a jackhammer is needed, aren’t a victim of the folks with the concrete in a truck (that presumably pour it on anything they can!), they are the sites where a jackhammer is now a useful instrument. This makes me think of those bathtubs that can be installed right on

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Well, there's the concrete truck and then there's the jackhammer. On Oct 17, 2016 1:24 PM, "Marcus Daniels" wrote: > It depends on whether, like David, you point to liberalism as the threat > to individual freedom and productivity, or the momentum of conservativism > and

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

It depends on whether, like David, you point to liberalism as the threat to individual freedom and productivity, or the momentum of conservativism and oligarchy to constrain lives.Some (like Assange) can't stand either one. A disruptor seeks a benign sort of chaos when power can shift

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This feels to me like our current-generation’s endorsement of essentially what Schumpeter termed (+/- my usual mistakes in transcription) “gales of creative destruction”. My more conservative farmer friends in Kentucky and Illinois regard Schumpeter as The Devil, delighting in the hardship of

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

Hi Nick, I think this fellow would agree with you: Technology: Enabler versus Disruptor . It is not the business model that is necessarily disrupted, but the way that the model is executed through the use of

Re: [FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

Imagine a scale of "technology goodness" that runs from Preserve-Status- Quo thru Exploit-Status-Quo thru Enhance-Status-Quo thru Variation-of-Status- Quo thru Alternative-to-Status-Quo thru Disrupt-Status-Quo to Transform-Whole- System. Now use that scale as a horizontal axis and add a vertical

[FRIAM] enablors vs disruptors

Dear Friammers, A close friend of mine has gone to work in marketing for a Startup Incubator in Another City. I have been perusing the website and I notice frequent use of the word "disruptors", as if disruption was a goal in itself. This puzzles me. I have always thought of technology