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Mentors « BoomStartup
Mentorship is a critical part of the BoomStartup model. It can often be the key to success for many companies. The relationships built among the companies, mentors, and others throughout the program will yield returns for years to come.
Network effect
Diagram showing the network effect in a few simple phone networks. The lines represent potential calls between phones. In economics and business , a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale ) is the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product to other people. When network effect is present, the value of a product or service is dependent on the number of others using it. [ 1 ] The classic example is the telephone .
Moore's law
An Osborne Executive portable computer, from 1982 with a Zilog Z80 4MHz CPU, and a 2007 Apple iPhone with a 412MHz ARM11 CPU. The Executive weighs 100 times as much, is nearly 500 times as large by volume, costs approximately 10 times as much (adjusting for inflation), and has 1/100th the clock frequency of the phone. Moore's law is the observation that over the history of computing hardware , the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. The period often quoted as "18 months" is due to Intel executive David House, who predicted that period for a doubling in chip performance (being a combination of the effect of more transistors and their being faster). [ 1 ] The law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon E.Disruptive technology
A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network , and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market. In contrast to disruptive innovation, a sustaining innovation does not create new markets or value networks but rather only evolves existing ones with better value , allowing the firms within to compete against each other's sustaining improvements. Sustaining innovations may be either "discontinuous" [ 1 ] (i.e.
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