Disruptor Alert: Intro
- October 16th, 2006 /
I’m thrilled that we have the new VoodooVentures.com up and running…and that it’s a blog! We have so many things going on, and we want to tell you guys about all of them, so this new unified blog is going to be perfect for this. We have a lot of plans for the blog, and one of them is to regularly post our analysis on certain topics (think: newspaper columns). I’ve been intrigued by Web 2.0, specifically where 2.0 is taking us all. 2.0 is a trendy name that I think a lot of people are moving away from. However, I feel like they’re (we’re) moving toward a more descriptive moniker, “disruptor.”
I find Disruptors fascinating, not only because we’re trying to disrupt some things, but because the act of disrupting means you are changing something forever. Forever, that’s a long time. We’re talking generational changes, or getting whole populations of people to do things differently (again) forever. This phenomenon shouldn’t surprise any of us. The Web is more accessible now than it has ever been – it’s cheap, it’s fast, it’s all-consuming.
The Disruptor Alert is going to be a Post Series where we’ll pop-up and offer our analysis anytime we see a disruptor on our radar.
Oct 17, 2006 at 11:16 am
I wonder if everybody knows what is actually “Disruptor”..can you please advice on what is the term, I guess it’s just that there are some Russian readers around other than me)
Oct 17, 2006 at 11:22 am
When I say Disruptor, what I really mean is that this is someone or something that changes or disrupts the way we’ve previously done things. Anyone who creates a way to do things like Microsoft, and gets people to use the new product and abandon the old product is a Disruptor. YouTube could disrupt the way we watch TV (although I doubt it). VOIP services could disrupt the way we use the telephone. That’s all I mean when I talk about Disruptors. bk
Oct 17, 2006 at 11:31 am
Thank you! That’s great to know!