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Hockey Stick Growth Explained

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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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Outplay gets $7.3M from Sequoia Capital India to help outbound sales team scale their campaigns

TechCrunch

Outplay helps them scale more easily with tools that automate campaigns, identifies the likeliest prospects and uses data to decide the right time to send pitches. The previous outbound sales tech disruption happened in 2011 when Outreach and Salesloft were founded. The company announced today it has raised $7.3

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Finding the right LPs, ocean conservation, inside Uber’s pre-seed deck

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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. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Dear Sophie, I’m in the U.S.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

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. Power Pitches. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. Power Pitches.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

Both Sides of the Table

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt.

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Announcing the judges for the TC Sessions: Robotics Pitch-Off

TechCrunch

No TechCrunch event is complete without a pitch-off showcasing early-stage startups from around the globe. Who will you be pitching to? The pitch-off will consist of three startup companies presenting for four seconds on the virtual stage, in front of the entire TC Sessions audience and our expert panel of judges.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. For years I saw companies pitching themselves as “mobile coupon companies&# and I never believed this would be a big idea. For this reason one of the most important companies for me at TC Disrupt was Datasift.