Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 10, 2016
In the end, if you’re not developing a deep bench of talented professionals who keep you on your toes, you’re bound to be disrupted. I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. If we don’t, we’re be disrupted from external sources.
TechCrunch
MARCH 13, 2021
In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. Each province tends to have a godfather/cheerleader who has championed local startups through investment, advice and connections.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2020
Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Peloton has recently done a big push to get users to add hashtags that they create?—?this this is classic community management.
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. He pinged me for advice. August 2011. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. We did not.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses.
Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. It seems like good advice to me. Even the most amazing disruptive game-changing plans have competition.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
To anybody who asks my advice I repeat the same line, “I don’t know whether this party will last 6 weeks, 6 months or 18 months. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category. source: Capital IQ. That may be.
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