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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 8
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    What comes after the “venture-funded startup” as the basic unit of innovation? This seems like a better question to me than “where is the next Silicon Valley” which is not even wrong.

    3:55 PM - 8 Jul 2020
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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 8
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        Venkatesh Rao Retweeted jpschust

        Yeah I’ve been hearing rumbles of the PEification of VC for a while https://twitter.com/jpschust/status/1280999291637633032?s=21 …https://twitter.com/jpschust/status/1280999291637633032 …

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        jpschust @jpschust
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        Venture funding is a mechanism. I suspect that the new phrase should be "growth oriented." You can be growth oriented and take many forms of finance or be located in many different places (or decentralized for that matter)
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      2. jpschust‏ @jpschust Jul 8
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        Venture funding is a mechanism. I suspect that the new phrase should be "growth oriented." You can be growth oriented and take many forms of finance or be located in many different places (or decentralized for that matter)

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      3. Michael Chapiro‏ @mchapiro Jul 8
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        "growth"-orientation is ill-posed with no mention of time & scale. If you were maximally growth oriented, you'd have a maximally spread portfolio of worthless things going from 0 to 0.01 very quickly. Why worry about headroom if you're growth oriented? Like Buffet said re 50% YoY

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      1. uncanny valley girl  🔪‏ @leaacta Jul 8
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        uncanny valley girl  🔪 Retweeted alice maz

        the innovator covenhttps://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1280207444912877572?s=19 …

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        alice maz @alicemazzy
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        remember tho the universities emerged out of cathedral schools which came from the monasteries! I'm bullish on new monastic orders
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      2. Nick Smith‏ @NorthbankNick Jul 8
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        Not in the interests of the power structures of society, but I feel like one potential source of innovation energy is going to be community based not capital based, with more local, organic innovation happening to try to reboot stuff around real peoples needs on the ground.

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      3. nafisa‏ @NafisaIstami Jul 8
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        This is what I was going to reply with, but it seems as though that may be wishful thinking on my part. I’d love to see more community-based, collaborative efforts, but we seem to be trending towards prioritizing the individual and accelerating growth.

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      1. Benjamin‏ @benjmnr Jul 8
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        Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and other blockchain based coops. See Augur, Compound, Moloch etc.

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      1. Michael Chapiro‏ @mchapiro Jul 8
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        maybe the citadel defense industry

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      2. Aron Roberts‏ @aronro Jul 8
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        The small, family-owned manufacturing company I work with, @BetterShowers, is celebrating its 10th anniversary of making #AmericanBuilt products (and 11th year in business). Profitable, highly reviewed. Organic growth - not externally-funded. If one is patient – another model?

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        Aron Roberts Retweeted High Sierra Showerheads

        They just received a second patent, following their first patent (in 2007) for their globally unique nozzle tech.https://twitter.com/BetterShowers/status/1278022786481451008 …

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        High Sierra Showerheads @BetterShowers
        In a steamy bathroom, mirrors fog up. Basic science. Until now. High Sierra's owner David Malcolm received US Patent 10687603 for a shower head with a genuinely fogless mirror. https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=10687603 … Hot water flowing thru the head warms the mirror, keeps away condensation. pic.twitter.com/q7rbsMZAsH
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