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. Through our Brand Advocate Process, we plan , build, promote and monitor social media strategies that include "app-vertising". We’re not doing it for you.

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OurCrowd

JULY 2, 2020

The economic disruption caused by COVID-19 is the worst recession the world has seen in nearly a century. Bessent drew attention to the Japanese economy surrounding the Fukushima attack in 2011. For several years,” said Bessent, “the Japanese stock market was the best performing market.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Trover (2011-2020). The shutdown comes after the platform had pivoted just months earlier, laying off in-house lawyers and turning into a clearer SaaS play. Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020). Total Raised: $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Exactly the opposite of what a rational investment strategy would advise. 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.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today, it’s announcing some funding to capitalize on that, a reminder of how disruption is always around the corner. They include Figma’s former COO (and current VSCO president) Eric Wittman, Cisco’s VP of developer relations strategy Grace Francisco and Google’s “Fonts leader” Dave Crossland.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. but a majority stake in its India and SAARC business was acquired by Indian company SAR Group in 2011.

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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

APRIL 17, 2013

As an example, eBay’s 2011 marketplace revenues were approximately $6.6B The most dangerous strategy for any platform company is to price too high – to charge a greedy and overzealous rake that could serve to undermine the whole point of having a platform in the first place. against GMS of approximately $68.6B

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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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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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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. Venture capital is just equity--and it's equity that isn't widely available to everyone and it gets invested in by a wide variety of investor types with different strategies.

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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. Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africa’s new largest tech hub. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 million across 19 African companies.

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