Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. This is the market that Wonga serves and they are killing it! LendingClub. 24.5mm in Series C. It’s a freakin’ cool feature. 8.0mm in Series B.

venture capital 265

venture capital peer-to-peer capital ventures 265

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.

disruption 111

disruption sustainability entrepreneurs energy 111

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. The number of people worldwide who are 65 and older is expected to grow from 524 million in 2010 to 1.5 Older adults are the most underserved demographic for the tech world.

incumbents 101

incumbents peer-to-peer opportunity strategy 101

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you want to see the future of financial services regulation, look to the UK The foundation: UK’s banking market and infrastructure In 2010, the UK was dominated by a small handful of large banks. The creativity of UK entrepreneurs has and will continue to disrupt the status quo in financial services. or the rest of Europe.

innovation 118

innovation disruption enablement support 118

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2014

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. Techcrunch Disrupt is where I met Steve and Jared from GroupMe and what led to me backing the company when I was with First Round Capital.

disruption 290

disruption communities innovation enablement 290

David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Simon Lack reports in The Hedge Fund Mirage that from 1998 to 2010, hedge fund managers earned $379 billion in fees, while their investors earned only $70 billion in investment gains net of fees. The resulting herd mentality hurts innovation and leads to suboptimal returns.

disruption 52

disruption peer-to-peer strategy venture capital 52

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Federal Reserve leading a global trend of interest rate hikes; an evolving European energy crisis; the first land war in Europe in 70 years; various supply chain disruptions; an ongoing global pandemic; growing global trade tensions, and, to top-off the sundae, a slowly collapsing Chinese credit bubble.

venture capital 84

venture capital capital ventures energy 84

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010.

startup 74

startup board venture capital VC 74

WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. The world continues to beat a path to your door until one day, when seemingly out of nowhere, the disruptor gets disrupted. In this era of endless innovation, there is only one thing you can do to stay competitive: you must learn how to disrupt yourself.

disruption 28

disruption startup founder founder startup 28

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The company has been around since 2010 and seems to have disclosed less than $24 million raised in that time, according to PitchBook data, while Crunchbase puts the total at $20 million. European firm Bregal Milestone is leading the round for Berlin-based Productsup, with previous backer Nordwind Capital also participating.

strategy 85

strategy sustainability enablement accelerator 85

TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, Trax also has offices in Brazil, the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, Mexico, Japan, Hungary, France, Russia and Australia. The company says it serves customers in more than 90 countries.

innovation 74

innovation data collection enablement strategy 74

Impact Hub

AUGUST 13, 2020

The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman who received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in 2010, was the one who first brought up the idea of liquid modernity. Its sudden disruption highlights a period of change and opportunity that can be used to address many challenges that the planet faces.

communities 69

communities enablement coworking sustainability 69

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Local startups that have gained global attention over this period — for velocity of growth and level of ambition, at the least — include the likes of Badi , Cabify , Glovo , Jobandtalent , Red Points , Sherpa.ai , TravelPerk , Typeform and Wallapop , to name a few. .”

startup 120

startup strategy entrepreneurship innovation 120

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Hipmunk (2010-2020). PicoBrew (2010-2020). The shutdown comes after the platform had pivoted just months earlier, laying off in-house lawyers and turning into a clearer SaaS play. Image Credits: Hipmunk.

startup 145

startup media venture capital ventures 145

Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Disruptive companies often start as gimmicks for hobbyists Most radical innovations initially appear like curiosities, only entertained by geeks and weirdos. Their growth naturally slowed down with scale but maintained a remarkable consistency over time: $3bn of revenues in 91, $9.5bn in 2001, $21bn in 2010 and $32bn in 2015.

startup 40

startup entrepreneurship culture communities 40

David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. .

venture capital 52

venture capital VC capital ventures 52

David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. .

venture capital 40

venture capital VC capital ventures 40

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

billion in 2010, Video Valley (the area of Lysaker right outside of Oslo) has churned out a lot of successful companies within the space. Our focus in Norway says a lot about the industries we think have potential for disruption and where Norway holds a particularly strong position; energy, property and mobility.

opportunity 115

opportunity mix-use advice investment 115

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. 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. We’ll re-compare notes then. Investors are conformists by nature. I avoided much of this.

angel investing 299

angel investing investment investing real estate 299

Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle. Since 2010, roughly a dozen venture-backed unicorns have emerged in and around Salt Lake, in no small part because Qualtrics put the city on the map for founders and VCs. And that mass of talent, in turn, continued to build in Utah.

communities 264

communities real estate innovation transportation 264

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. It has just been released to wide audiences November 2010 – mostly in response to the growing popularity of Netflix and ironically the introduction of the ABC.com player on the iPad.

incumbents 292

incumbents innovation media disruption 292

TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Between 2006 and 2010, CEO Wilkerson, then a journalist and researcher, spent a great deal of time using motorcycles ( Boda bodas ) for quick and flexible transport. So in 2010, Wilkerson launched Own Your Own Boda, a for-profit enterprise to put these riders on a path toward owning their motorcycles.

financing 103

financing finance transportation support 103

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

He has invested in more than 20 companies since 2010. According to Crunchbase, he co-founded Warehouse Investimentos in 2010, where he led deal-sourcing efforts. SoftBank describes Baer as one of the pioneers of Brazil’s venture capital industry.

investment 83

investment investing real estate venture capital 83

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. According to The Economist, investors poured more than $500 billion in 2021 into “energy transition” (shorthand for decarbonizing everything from energy and transport to industry and farming), twice as much as they did in 2010.

sustainability 100

sustainability peer-to-peer energy transportation 100

TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

” Key legal issues for influencers and brands (and how to deal with them) Apply now to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt in September Interested in speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt this September in San Francisco? Submit a title and a description for the topic you’d like to talk about before April 21.

pitching 93

pitching shared workspaces disruption consulting 93

TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Still others have struggled to find a reliable source of revenue — Cuil , which was founded by former Google engineers, raised $33 million in capital before shutting down in 2010, after just over 2 years in operation. ”

development 94

development ventures disruption collaboration 94

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. since 2010. million EVs have been sold in the U.S. Source : Canva Wearables At least 1 in 5 U.S.

startup 91

startup enablement health construction 91

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The NIH has launched them into spac e to study the effects of spaceflight, and has been developing tissue chip testing and validation programs since 2010. A lot of that growth will depend on the potential for an organ-on-a-chip to disrupt the preclinical side of the drug testing process.

data collection 74

data collection collaboration disruption development 74

Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. I serve as a formal advisor to a small number of companies that have potential to disrupt their industries. I’m active in the MN tech and start-up community as a mentor, advisor, and angel investor.

angel investing 69

angel investing investment investing leadership 69

OkDork

JULY 23, 2022

Keep in mind that this was happening in 2010. YouTube only launched in 2005 and Instagram was founded in 2010 too, so the kind of content being posted on social media was nothing like it is today. Okay, now let’s talk about Quest’s timeline: 2010: Quest was launched. The influencer industry was nothing like what it is today.

health 52

health media entrepreneurs disruption 52

Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

The great bull market of 2010 – 2021, fueled by cheap capital, caused a nearly unprecedented rise in the valuations of speculative assets, from real estate to angel and venture equity. With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022.

funders 52

funders angel capital real estate capital 52

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 17, 2018

Megan, also known at The Cyclist Lawyer, formed her own law practice in 2010 at age 29. If background noises are bothering you, consider a fan or earplugs—something to drown out the disruptions and provide your senses a rest. Written for EO by Megan Hottman. Megan recently shared this essay with Octane. How about noise?

energy 152

energy real estate health entrepreneurs 152

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. 8/31/2010 – Same thing. We’re not doing it for you.

media 281

media networking social gaming SaaS 281

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, Heddleston worked for Dropbox as a summer in intern in 2010. Both Dropbox and SendDoc participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with Houston debuting Dropbox in 2008 at the TechCrunch 50, the original name of the event. Meanwhile, DocSend participated in 2014 at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City.

startup 139

startup disruption pitching VC 139

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.

disruption 40

disruption sustainability media strategy 40

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

In fact, I lost more than $15 million dollars in 2010 in the demise of my manufacturing business because I was vulnerable to my partners and bankers. As the business grows, however, some of those differences can become major disruptions. By Mike Whitaker, author of The Decision Makeover. When things turn, you find out the truth.

energy 130

energy accelerator disruption entrepreneurs 130

TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Malek’s background is on the commerce side, having worked at Argentinian insurtech company iunigo.com before founding e-commerce fulfillment company Avenida.com, which was acquired by Groupon in 2010. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

enablement 102

enablement disruption capital support 102