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Asset Management Is a Peculiar Industry Ripe for Disruption

David Teten VC

This negative externality is unique to financial services and was particularly obvious in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The scope of the liquidity infusion has been massive even by the 2008 standard. We wrote the first version of this research with Brent Beardsley , formerly a Partner with Boston Consulting Group.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding the right LPs, ocean conservation, inside Uber’s pre-seed deck

TechCrunch

A 60-minute briefing with a consultant who told me I’d be fine if I stuck to the script. 7 investors explain why they’re all in Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 Image Credits: Uber (opens in a new window) The word “disruptive” gets thrown around so much, it’s lost much of its impact.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. We're seeing, for the first time, investment and some disruption in huge areas like education, food, healthcare, government and even hardware based startups. In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in philosophy, Tavel was a consultant at The Kerden Group and then vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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How To Unleash Sustainable Innovation That Matters

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A study by MIT Sloan and Boston Consulting Group found that while nearly two-thirds of business respondents felt sustainability issues were important, only 10% fully tackled them. In 2008, Unilever , a company of 172,000 employees and 2015 sales of $60.6 In 2008, Airbnb was born out of the humble search for a spare air mattress.

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Birdzeye’s Norlock is Helping Minority Owned Businesses Gain Equal Access to North American Retail…

Jason Malki

Trevor started his career in consumer electronics in 2008, at a small startup in San Francisco called JOBY. We bring to market DISRUPTIVE brands that come into existing categories and shake things up; offering consumers a better, healthier, sustainable option. global revenue. While managing Sales + Strategy over the last 5.5

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). However, it wasn’t until two years later that Njeru joined fulltime as he had a six-year engagement with Deloitte South Africa from 2012 as a consultant actuary. Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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