TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

SpaceLab Detroit is another coworking space in Detroit that focuses within a particular area, building community and running programming around tech, innovation, disruption and creativity. SpaceLab Detroit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

” The software development agency has worked on more than 350 digital products since its founding in 2009, for startups of all sizes. Danny walks through a recap of his panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. From being around so long, we’ve probably made every mistake you can possibly think of. Which is an advantage.”

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Automotive e-commerce startup Vroom is disrupting the entire automotive sales industry. Founded in Detroit, though now headquartered in California, Rivian is a leader in the electric truck market that has consistently been making headlines since its founding in 2009. Apply StockX now. . They have raised $10.7

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If our assumption about the data quality is correct, then it’s reasonable to conclude that the volume of seed investment has either remained constant or slowed since 2009. Above is a chart of US VC investments (in number, not investment size) normalized by stage since 1997 using data from the NVCA.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2014

In 2009, I was introduced to Havi Hoffman. After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. She was working as a developer evangelist at Yahoo! More detail from Tarikh below.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. It provides another excellent case study of innovator’s dilemma, and a great framework to predict the future impact of nascent disruptive innovations.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I experienced that myself with my startup in 2008 and 2009. So if companies can't get their Series A, it's not some terrible tragedy that there are otherwise great opportunities that are being left to die. Those companies didn't execute as well as they should. I didn't get Series A Crunched. I failed to perform.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2009, Duo Security has grown into one of the top tech companies in the Midwest—and the country. Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry. Check out the top companies to watch in Ann Arbor—and yes, they’re hiring! The 2021 best Ann Arbor tech companies. Duo Security.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. These are areas where digital tools have had an impact on other industries.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. in 2009 the market was completely constipated as investors focused on triage. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. Bad times are when M&A halts to a trickle and this is when many businesses are rushing to get exits. I avoided much of this.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In the early spring of 2009, the fundraising nuclear winter of the previous year hadn't yet thawed. A significant amount also came from KEC holdings, a NJ based family office led by Jeff Citron, who is known for using technology to disrupt a number of industries.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that. Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009. Let’s be clear: AngelList doesn’t scare a single VC I know. It is additive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. The company has largely been bootstrapped, although it did raise a private round of a few million dollars in 2009 and a $20 million injection of capital in 2020.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. Fitbit became the first household name in wearables when it launched its first tracker in 2009. There were 78 million U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock. Existing investors including Atomico, DN, Infravia, Kibo and Quadrille also participated in the round — which the startup said values its business at $2.35BN (post-money).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

Founded in 2009 in Menlo Park, California, the firm — also known as a16z — has for years been a symbol of Silicon Valley investing. Last month, Andreessen Horowitz — one of venture capital’s largest and most prominent players — announced that its “ headquarters will be in the cloud ” going forward.

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2020

Historically, venture investing right after major market downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2000-2002, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new venture investors.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

You are pivoting the direction of the story, you are disrupting the current status quo, and the possibilities are endless. For example, on their 2009 pitch deck, Airbnb had a market validation slide to support their thesis that people would be willing to stay on strangers’ couches. What’s going on? What are the flaws?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency. 12/11/2009 – Slight tweak: Now you use our tools to control your social media.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” In July of 2009, the UK instituted a new network known as Faster Payment Service with same day settlement to replace their equivalent of ACH. The basis of this argument is really two fold.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch. “You

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Over the weekend, I watched Page One, a documentary which chronicles the turmoil occurring within the New York Times in 2009 and 2010 when newspapers were going out of business all over the country. In addition, the company hired a handful of young bloggers to incorporate a disruptive medium into their product.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 7, 2023

We are excited to continue our support to UENA and partake in the disruption of the daily food industry in Indonesia,” said Jordy Tenka of East Ventures. East Ventures, founded in 2009, has invested in over 300 tech companies across Southeast Asia, including Tokopedia and Traveloka, Indonesia’s unicorn companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Series A is the first outside capital Zonos has raised since it was founded in 2009, Clint Reid, founder and CEO, told TechCrunch. One of the things that attracted MacLean to the company was that Reid was building a company outside of Silicon Valley and disrupting global trade far from any port.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

It can also be potentially disruptive: Early marketing and product managers may feel sidelined by new cross-functional teams that suddenly take a leadership role. Last week, Kickstarter announced that people have backed more than 200,000 projects with $6 billion in pledges since the company launched in 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

That strikes me as an attractive market for disruption over time. Certain parts of it seem ripe for disruption sooner rather than later. 2) Harris Interactive IMShopping Poll (August 2009). (3) Of the $300 billion spent annually on advertising, 90% of it ($270bn) is still offline and not measurable. (1). 1) eMarketer. (2)

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

A high rake will allow you to achieve larger revenues faster, but it will eventually represent a strategic red flag – a pricing umbrella that can be exploited by others in the ecosystem, perhaps by someone with a more disruptive business model. The 30% rake basically launched a nasty competitor with a disruptive pricing model.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 26, 2021

Stripe’s launch in 2009 made it possible for startups to easily collect payments online via developer-friendly APIs. 4) Lower the cost for customers: As a financial services provider and a software company, Brex is disrupting existing pricing models of point solutions in both layers. ecommerce, SaaS, marketplaces) and verticals.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 30, 2014

At their lowest point in 2009, the basket reached 2.8x. During the financial crisis, that number fell, but a year later SaaS companies suddenly began to appreciate dramatically in value. Throughout these past ten years, and despite the fact that the basket of stocks has changed, the median has been 4.9x.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion.

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