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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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them,” reports Tim De Chant. But when Uber rolled out service in San Francisco in 2011, it really transformed the way people got around.

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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. It’s what creates opportunities for the entrepreneurs and it’s what helps them produce great returns for the LPs.

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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. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete.

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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). Total Raised: $2.5

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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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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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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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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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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. It’s an opportunity for the founding principal to make a mark on his or her school.

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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. This will always be important to us, but we also see tremendous opportunity to expand our virtual community to include friends and colleagues worldwide.

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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. It’s an opportunity for the founding principal to make a mark on his or her school.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

He thinks the market opportunity for his company, an in-stealth remote HQ, is in the trillions because it has the potential to disrupt real estate, transportation and, in a macro sense, urban cities. “I Image Credits: Bryce Durbin. Huddle’s Florent Crivello disagrees. Then, COVID-19 forced offices closed and employees adapted.

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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. . Wall Street Journal: OurCrowd chases the ‘trillion-dollar opportunity’. This is a trillion-dollar opportunity.” billion in 2011. Introductions.

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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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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.

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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.” By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities: Sprout Social, CoTweet, awe.sm, LocalResponse. We know that Twitter is leading to customer service opportunities for businesses but the opposite is also true. If you look at the power of Bit.ly

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

As an example, eBay’s 2011 marketplace revenues were approximately $6.6B A high rake will allow you to achieve larger revenues faster, but it will eventually represent a strategic red flag – a pricing umbrella that can be exploited by others in the ecosystem, perhaps by someone with a more disruptive business model.

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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. August 2011. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. We did not. Fundings boomed. Summary version?

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

Seizing on this window of opportunity, Kuroda-dono and Lady Lagarde chimed in: “Well, Sir Powell, we’d like to see you prove it! Japan’s knee-jerk reaction to the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami was to shut down all nuclear reactors. is there anything that cannot be solved by printing Dollars?”

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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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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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