Last month we noted that CircleUp, a new crowd-funding platform for small retailers/consumer brands, had launched with $1.5 million in venture capital from Maveron and individuals like David Topper. What we didn't know at the time was that the round's largest investor actually was Clayton Christensen, the noted Harvard Business School professor and author of books like The Innovator's Dilemma. He did the deal ...

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