TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

What he found was a gap in the market and an opportunity to fill it. The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 and became a finalist in the competition. He had already earned the serial entrepreneur badge with CodeGuard, a website backup startup, and his hardware company Claw Hanging Systems. How it works.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It also offers an opportunity to examine those issues from a bit of distance to see if there are any broader takeaways for the community at large. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Trover (2011-2020). The Outline (2016-2020).

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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. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. It takes options off of the table.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. 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.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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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. You’re strengthening communities through an innovative approach to education.

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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 Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work.

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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. You’re strengthening communities through an innovative approach to education.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In Singapore , the Ministry of Trade and Industry re-defined the definition of SMEs in 2011. It provides job opportunities for local people. Opportunities to New Entrepreneurs. This helps SMEs to identify any kind of opportunity that arises in the market before any competitors. Characteristics of SMEs. Come on!

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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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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Wall Street Journal: OurCrowd chases the ‘trillion-dollar opportunity’. Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. Job opportunities. . Led by charismatic chairman Dr Kira Radinsky, the company is described by the Israel Innovation Authority as “the most prominent company in the Israeli healthcare ecosystem.”

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. So if companies can't get their Series A, it's not some terrible tragedy that there are otherwise great opportunities that are being left to die. I doubt it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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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. He had the opportunity to make something great and, sadly, we are just starting to see some of the cracks. The real estate industry was ripe for a disruption that put the people’s needs before the landlords.

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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. Tijani is the co-founder and CEO of Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), a pan-African innovation hub with offices in Lagos and Nairobi. Investzilla is focused on unlocking that opportunity for them.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. This is where Appzone has found its sweet spot.

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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. It can be tricky to spot ready opportunities in the marketplace and very tricky to tailor your operation to fill that void. But with genuinely disruptive products and services, early adoption will pay dividends.

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