2005 disruption financing 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. THAT is disruption. The Exit Problem.
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JUNE 22, 2011
Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.
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This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
What areas need to be disrupted? It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community. What areas are going to change? Android Backlash. What will Facebook do to things?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption. Finance where needed. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Cut where needed.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Total disruption on the funding market?
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. Companies like Wise, Modulr, and Form3 have unlocked this capability for fintech and non-finance companies. The creativity of UK entrepreneurs has and will continue to disrupt the status quo in financial services. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2021
Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.
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