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. 3/15/2011 – All in on Facebook, “Your Trusted Social Media Marketing Company” Social Media Platform. 8/31/2010 – Same thing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2011, Greg’s first book, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits shares his core principles of how to turn your business into a wealth-building engine. Expect a disruption of normal terms (expect to get paid slower, but you may have to pay faster). After being named to the Inc. accounting firm, ranked by Accounting Today.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon’s 2013 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs in 2011. The Internet has been a powerful and disruptive technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

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. I see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs. That may be. It may also be that this lasts another 18 months.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

While the desire and intention to create disruptive digital customer experiences grows, however, the majority of B2B companies struggle to deliver. Tim has been an EO member since 2011. According to Accenture, 80 percent of B2B companies try to innovate around CX , but fail to generate a satisfactory return on investment.

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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. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they

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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. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. It had eight gigabytes of storage.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Bill Gurley tweeted his blog post from 2011 that “ all revenue is not created equal.” So how you value and how you finance low margin businesses becomes very important. They can’t be valued too highly or you risk a financing crisis. ” That is a great way of saying what I was trying to say.

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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.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 22, 2024

The Thiel Foundation continues its commitment to innovation and disruption achieved by bright young minds, outside of academic studies, by announcing its 2024 class of Thiel Fellows. The latest cohort joins 270 alumni of the program that began in 2011. 20 young bright minds forego academic study to participate in a two-year program.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. We want to change the local mindset when it comes to education.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

And honestly it was the single biggest roadblock at Upfront when we raised out fourth fund in 2011. And to Fred’s point that he and Brad want to do this for a long time: Yves is only 60 and over the last several years has gotten even more passionate about investing in disruptive technologies than I’ve seen before.

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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. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. This year for every plan that really looks like it might be disruptive or game changing I saw 20 or so that claimed to be.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

Plains Venture Partners is a growth-oriented venture fund focused on investing in entrepreneurs and technologies with a strong potential for disruption. The Accelerate Oklahoma Fund was created in 2011 by i2E to invest in Oklahoma-based startups and is managed by iMCI.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions. “Appzone is building a disruptive fintech ecosystem that will be the backbone of Africa’s finance industry with products across payments, infrastructure and software as a service.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The company, which was founded in 2011 and is led by CEO Dan Preston, said it has reached a merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company INSU Acquisition Corp. Metromile is credited for disrupting some of the inefficiencies of the auto insurance business model, notably how consumers are charged.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. We want to change the local mindset when it comes to education.”.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

By comparison, when oil prices doubled between 2009 and 2011, it created stress for some industries, but there was no concern that the global economy would collapse. Similarly, when the highly leveraged Long Term Capital Management fund collapsed in the late 1990s, sixteen leading financial institutions had to agree on a $3.6

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Many readers know that at Upfront Ventures that’s precisely what happened at our own firm in 2011 when our founding partner and my co-Managing Partner, Yves Sisteron, asked me to lead the daily management of our firm. The great firms transition day-to-day leadership and often those who don’t fail to protect their “franchise value.”

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Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2019

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. The Detroit-based company is seeking a Jewelry Designer to conceptualize, and design, full jewelry collections.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. Two years after launching the African entertainment company in 2011, Njoku and his co-founder Bastian Gotter launched SPARK , a self-described company builder and a $2 million fund.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today, it’s announcing some funding to capitalize on that, a reminder of how disruption is always around the corner. The company, based out of Madrid, has picked up $8 million in a round led by Decibel out of the U.S., Athos is a repeat backer: It also invested in an earlier $2.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Under Thoma Bravo, they had made several new acquisitions that increased their scale since going private in 2011. Still, if your start-up operation manages to align itself with the immediate needs of the marketplace, to the point that it disrupts reigning trends, there’s a very strong chance you’ll appeal to investors, as well.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

The previous outbound sales tech disruption happened in 2011 when Outreach and Salesloft were founded. Laxman said that in the mid-2000s, inbound sales processes and tech began rapidly evolving as SaaS adoption increased, but outbound sales teams still relied on the same high-volume tactics they had been using for years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. We want to change the local mindset when it comes to education.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

The winning team will receive a coveted spot in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200, free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 and the chance to win $100,000 in equity-free prize money. Bummed you missed your chance to apply for the pitch-off? TechCrunch has your back — you have until the end of day today to apply — here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Vayyar , a company developing radar-imaging sensor technologies, today announced that it raised $108 million in a Series E round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from GLy Capital Management, Atreides Management LP, KDT, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, More VC, Regal Four and Claltech.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 and became a finalist in the competition. But the website crashed the day before American Inventor aired. A few years later, Moeller co-founded website backup startup CodeGuard with a professor at Georgia Tech. Moeller stayed on at Sectigo for another two years.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

And one of the cooler new products that will emerge in 2011 is called LocalResponse and is being created by Nihal Mehta , who has pivoted from his previous company Buzzd, but I’m sworn to secrecy on what he’s up to until he releases it publicly. If you look at the power of Bit.ly provides you. They’re based in London.

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GCUC

AUGUST 9, 2019

While we are collaborating, conspiring and disrupting the CRE and design markets, we are building a platform for change. When we started GCUC (2011) there were a little over 700 coworking spaces in the world. We, the coworking peeps of the world, are fundamentally shifting the way all workspaces are seen and structured.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. billion in 2011. Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. “We Wall Street Journal: OurCrowd chases the ‘trillion-dollar opportunity’. SALT Talks: Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Virgin Hyperloop gathers speed. Introductions. Watch here.

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In 2011, I called Adam Neumann of WeWork and invited him to come to Austin for the very first GCUC conference. The real estate industry was ripe for a disruption that put the people’s needs before the landlords. Coworking is that disruption. He agreed and came to Link Coworking (my brand, which I have since sold) in Austin.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In Singapore , the Ministry of Trade and Industry re-defined the definition of SMEs in 2011. Innovation: A unique feature of a startup is disruptive innovation. They are – `total full-time equivalent of paid employees’ and `total annual turnover’ Singapore. Characteristics of SMEs. Go On, Tell Us What You Think!

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2015

And in 2012, the company decided to disrupt its own businesses. in revenue in 2011 at 97% gross margin. Nevertheless, in just about 5 years, Adobe’s transition from license software to SaaS will be complete, and Adobe will have been one of the few SaaS companies to manage to disrupt itself successfully.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

7 investors explain why they’re all in Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 Image Credits: Uber (opens in a new window) The word “disruptive” gets thrown around so much, it’s lost much of its impact.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

In August of 2011, he and his team had built JOBY gto be the #1 Camera Tripod (stability) brand in the world and successfully sold JOBY to the Daymen Group in Petaluma, CA; who were the owners of the world’s largest camera bag brand by revenue and volume, LowePro. global revenue. What are your future plans for your startup?

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