> either you're growing and on top of the world, or you'll be out of business in a couple years. Just ask DEC, Symbolics, SGI, Sun, Yahoo, AOL, Netscape, etc.

I think rather than looking at those names we might ask ourselves about the ones that managed to survive: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, as an example

Sure, we might argue that they have not always been the most ethical companies out there, but it doesn't mean they haven't had to reinvent themselves here and there

How come Oracle and IBM got more money from Java than Sun? Windows is now "free" but MS continues to make money.

Those companies that went away seems to be mostly good examples of the Inventor's dilema. Especially SGI.