Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.”

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Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2019

And while conventional wisdom suggests that to work in an innovative and cutting-edge environment you had to move to places like San Francisco or New York City, Revolution-backed companies are proving that some of the country’s most interesting and successful are based in other cities. Looking for more opportunities?

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SaaS communities disruption opportunity 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. And having too much money certainly raises board expectations that you will do big things quickly. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. It takes options off of the table.

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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. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. Even the most amazing disruptive game-changing plans have competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors.

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communities peer-to-peer venture capital enablement 234

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. Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. It isn’t new stuff.

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