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. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza.

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Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2019

The new year is the perfect time to take on new challenges and pursue new opportunities. Jewelry Designer at Shinola Location: Detroit, MI Shinola was founded in 2011 with the goal to make quality products and to build them right here in America. Looking for more opportunities?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

The market that Mambu is courting is the vast opportunity for a new wave of banking and financial services that tap into the growth of smartphone and web usage. Mambu was one of the first companies to leverage the opportunity to move banking software into the cloud,” he said in a statement. That could lead to consolidation, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

And having too much money certainly raises board expectations that you will do big things quickly. No board is going to give you $25 million up front and then expect your year-one staff expenditures to be $2 million. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete.

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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. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. And it would be?—?but

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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. 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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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.” As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company. Undiscovered Clues.

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