2004 disruption ventures 
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 30, 2015
Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas."
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 2, 2023
When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 1, 2011
The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. After rejuvenating from the exhausting sale of Quigo, Mike started a ‘boring site’ called Tracked.com that he thought would be a better version of Yahoo!
TechCrunch
MAY 19, 2021
Jeff Farrah is the general counsel of the National Venture Capital Association. The knock-on effect of these reforms for young companies and their venture investors is unclear. But as Patricia Nakache of Trinity Ventures said in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee: “[Acquisitions have] been commonplace in the U.S.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. They controlled distribution to the masses. Enter Facebook.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Iconic New York venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau announced $230 million in additional funding across two new funds: LH Seed VIII, which focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, and LH Select IV, which invests in companies from Series A to C. He started Thrillist with Adam Rich in 2004, which later became Group Nine Media in 2016.
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