Startups need to make a lot of money or have a lot of users
Startups need to conform to investor timescales
Startups are good at point changes
Startup Constraints - essay
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§Academia Constraints
Decoupling from market discipline is like cave diving
Current value capture mechanisms are crude
When should an idea that smells like research be a startup?
§Corporate R+D Constraints
Bell Labs is one of the few examples of an innovation org that was aligned with its money factory
Systemic decay theory of stagnation
Ideally corporate R+D enables work on a general purpose technology before it’s specialized
There are many tight feedback loops built into the ARPA model
Things that are not paper-worthy enough for academia and not product-focused enough for a startup
One function of a private ARPA is to fill in the gap once filled by corporate R+D
There are many important innovations that are just bad investments
The market in for-profit organizations is fairly efficient
Profit-maximizing organizational structures can hamstring technologies whose impact depends on them
It is easier to have a multipoint mutation in technology than in evolution
Startups and Academia are bad at addressing structural constraints
The Architected Innovation Institute - Engineering Scientific Revolutions