2005 disruption opportunity 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.
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. The Year of the Pivot.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
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. I see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs. Those with strong business models suddenly stand out when the tide goes out.
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. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 5, 2011
When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. But every time I talk with senior executives a the big studios or talent agencies I tell the same story, “You know that your industry is being disrupted.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2021
The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. The combination of these factors makes Brazil an especially attractive market for Cora to launch in and disrupt,” Kostov told TechCrunch. This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 14, 2022
In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).
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