This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. These closed periods have more to do with trends in other markets or macro fears than they have anything to do with prospects for innovation. In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Sam Altman of YC recently pointed out that pulling back during the downturn in 2008 would result in several big misses: In October of 2008, Sequoia Capital—arguably the best-ever in the business—gave the famous “RIP Good Times” presentation (I was there). A few months later, we funded Airbnb.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. So what took me $2 million at my first company now takes $20,000. That’s awesome.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

Traditionally, corporations that invest in innovation during a crisis outperform peers by up to 30% during recovery, a recent McKinsey report reveals. Ironically, the same report also reveals that current corporate commitment to innovation has been decreasing as CEOs prioritize their core business in the wake of Covid-19.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Originally from Munich, Germany, the company has been around since 2008 — Schufa acquired a majority stake in finAPI in 2019. This is a hugely exciting milestone for Yapily on our journey from disruptive startup to ambitious scale-up. FinAPI is also an open banking provider.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“Local businesses [in Indonesia] have accelerated their adoption of digital technology due to innovation in the e-commerce ecosystem and dynamic changes in consumer behavior,” Bang said. “Plugo offers an unmatched suite of digital capabilities that will transform the future of e-commerce in Indonesia.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. The company based in Lagos, Nigeria, was founded by Emeka Emetarom , Obi Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008. Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Sure, when s**t really hits the fan, like in 2008, and the whole market goes haywire, everyone's going to feel it, but in any kind of normal environment, hedge fund returns should be largely uncorrelated to anything else. I experienced that myself with my startup in 2008 and 2009. Those companies didn't execute as well as they should.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Startups will have five minutes to pitch their companies, business models and innovative ideas — followed by a Q&A with our superb panel of judges. The winner will get a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a complimentary Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 9, 2022

While Terra’s crash disrupted crypto markets, it didn’t affect the wider mainstream financial sector, but that won’t stop regulators from seeing this as a huge red flag. The path to smart regulation Although concerns about risk to both consumers and the wider financial system are real, regulators must be careful not to stifle innovation?—?or

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

We are a state that seems ready to seize the moment and leverage the quality of life and business-friendly advantages here to add innovation and technology-based economic development to Oklahoma’s list of “greats.”. The Oklahoma Innovation Model attracts and unites scientific researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs and manufactures.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

For Tom Patterson, CEO of the men’s underwear startup Tommy John , disrupting a saturated industry meant solving problems people came to believe they just had to live with. “In In 2008, I was a medical device salesman frustrated with the fabric, fit and functionality of my undergarments,” says Patterson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. In 2017, Veev Group began to focus on prefabrication capabilities, and by 2018 it formally pivoted to what it described as “a vertically integrated developer focused on building innovation.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. Many may simply hit the wall. Same with VCs.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. THAT is disruption.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe that. That’s a fact.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. Given the company’s slow pace of innovation — which contradicted the core principles of Lean — we assumed they wouldn't amount to much. Challenge #4: The Lean Startup overemphasizes a focus on product over deliberate growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Or vaginal infections are considered this mundane issue and as a result the way that we treat vaginal infections is also quite flawed because we over-rely on anti-fungal and antibiotic treatments which actually place women at a higher risk of recurrent infections as they disrupt your lactobacilli in your vaginal microbiome.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform. And this is my third SaaS company.

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