Sacred Cow Dung

ABOUT | SACRED COW DUNG

A Pasture for Cynical Optimists and Optimistic Cynics to Expose and to Challenge Prevailing Mythocracies in Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Management Philosophy, Technology, Media, Communications, Product Development, Market Entry Strategy, Finance, Political Economy, and the Internet

BTW: What the hell is “Mythocracy”?

Chief Dung Analyst & Grand Pooh Pundit: Chris "Denim Doc" Mayaud

ABOUT | Christian Mayaud

THUMBNAIL SKETCH:

“He’s a VC.  He’s a New Yorker.  And he’s French.  So he has 3 orders of  magnitude more opinions than your Average Joe.” — paraphasing a colleague

FAVORITE QUOTES:

“Intelligence is like four-wheel drive … it just gets you stuck in more remote places.”  — Garrison Keilor

“Tell the truth and run.” — Old Yugoslav proverb 

 

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PRESENTATIONS

• “The Perfect Storm”:  Venture Capital’s “Death Triad”
• Tectonic Realignments and the Decimation of Venture Capital as we know it today (2005)
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• Healthcare: "Squaring the Box"
• Finding Solutions to the Ultimate Multi-Player Zero-Sum Game (2005)
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• Peripheralization: The Next Wave of Disintermediation
• Phase 6 of the New Economy Revisited (2004)
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• OpenSource and the Golden Goose – A Grim Fairy Tale
• Paupers become King in the Enterprise Market (2004)
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• The Rise (and the Rise) of COMtent over Content
• COMtent remains the basic building block of all Sustainable Digital Franchises (2003)
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• Aftermath.com
• Now What? (2002)
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• The Layering Market
• Horizontal Opportunity, Vertical Peril -- Adapting Traditional Business Strategies to Rapidly Layering Markets (2001)
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• Internet eVolution
• The Five Phases of Internet Market Maturation (1999)
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• From Concept to Execution
• Principles and Best Practices (1999)
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• Don't Drink the e-Kool-Aid
• Creating Sustainable Internet-based Value in Structurally Vulnerable Markets (1998)
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• The Stone Soup Strategem
• The Power of Community in Digital Communications (1997)
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• Getting in Front of the Healthcare Dollar
• Where We've Bee, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going (1996)
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• Where's the Beef in Interactive Services?
• The Rise of Internet-based Digital Franchises and The Strategic Shift from Content to COMtent-based Networks (1994)
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• The Physicians' Online Network
• Blueprint for Meeting the Present and Future Communication Needs of an Evolving US Healthcare System (1992)
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