Stanley Wong's Blog » Startups http://stanleywong.org Musings from the Interactive Ad Man Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:38:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Malcom Gladwell’s How David Beats Goliath http://stanleywong.org/2009/05/07/malcom-gladwell%e2%80%99s-how-david-beats-goliath/ http://stanleywong.org/2009/05/07/malcom-gladwell%e2%80%99s-how-david-beats-goliath/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 18:52:35 +0000 swong http://stanleywong.org/?p=49

Interesting new article in The New Yorker by Malcom Gladwell (Outliers, The Tipping Point) about How David Beats Goliath.  Basically a great article on disruption.  The article reminds me of Clayton Christensen’s work on the Innovator’s Dilemma series where upstarts can come into an industry and disrupt well established players.  Great stuff for anyone wanting to build a startup.

“…substituting effort for ability turns out to be a winning formula for underdogs in all walks of life…”

Throw out the conventional.  If you are building a startup you have to be willing to go above and beyond what is conventional and disrupt your competition.

A great read.  Check it out here.

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iLike LogoMy friends, Ali & Hadi Partovi, has launch a new service in beta called iLike. iLike is a cool new music discovery service that hooks into your playlist on iTunes. Add a bit a social community and shake it up with Web 2.0 goodness and you have iLike.

iLike is a startup everyone should keep an eye on since the brothers Partovi are instrumental in bring to life LinkExhange (one of the first ad networks acquired by Microsoft), TellMe (Voice Recognition), and Microsoft Internet Explorer (Hadi led the way).
Scoble Show on PodTech just released a great interview with Ali giving an interview about iLike. Try it out!

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