TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. IfOnly (2012-2020). The shutdown comes after the platform had pivoted just months earlier, laying off in-house lawyers and turning into a clearer SaaS play. Total Raised: $51.4 Total Raised: $520,000.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Murielle Thinard McLane, Intuitive Ventures: Robotics capitalization strategies will shift. Many startups in the space relied on SVB’s unique venture debt offering and it leaves a gap in capitalization strategies. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. I want to see some robotics startups in the mix.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. It had eight gigabytes of storage. It connected via firewire, not USB. And it made Apple tons of money. Some say it changed Apple from failure to success. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins and her team started working on Canva in 2012, and launched the product in 2013. ” Though a bottoms-up enterprise strategy is relatively popular these days, Canva was an early master of the model. Canva CEO Melanie Perkins will tell us about the journey to a $15B valuation at Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012. Last year was a challenging one for the company, as the pandemic disrupted some of its activities; excluding 2020, Tugende has doubled in team size year-on-year. This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

“Our go-to-market strategy is focused on leveraging our digital products to win new customers and provide them with a solution for a faster, more cost-efficient transformation or with a component for incremental value added,” Romero said. billion from 2012 to 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

In the end, if you’re not developing a deep bench of talented professionals who keep you on your toes, you’re bound to be disrupted. And Greg has had the most influence on Upfront Ventures’ strategy since he joined. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. He’s pushed us to be out in the community more.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Major capital market disruptions often bring a “VC Reset,” as venture firms rethink fundamentals, often pressured to do so by limited partners. The survivors will place greater focus on core products, services, more efficient processes and strategies to gain market share even in tougher times. 2 A (temporary) venture capital reset?

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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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Dream It

AUGUST 29, 2019

At the seed stage, talking about exit strategy always seems a bit premature, even presumptuous. But this topic is always in the back of mind for VCs and other investors, so it’s important to formulate a plan around the topic, even if those exit strategies might change as you grow your startup. Take Google as an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

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. And he led what is currently our best performing company out of that 2012 fund – AdoreMe.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies such as E*TRADE, Rocket Mortgage, and TurboTax began to disrupt the established financial services sector well before 2012, but that year marked the turning point when fintech morphed into a sustained movement that would drastically change how most people manage their money.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

You are ready to launch and thinking about the right go-to-market strategies that will lead to quick and scalable growth ? —?a Devising an effective go-to-market strategy requires thinking beyond traditional approaches towards growth, which are often not optimal for category-defining startups.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

founded in May 2012 with Shen Hui as its legal representative and registered capital of 6 billion yuan (approximately $0.8 More from Asia Tech Daily: Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol. WM Motor Technology Group Co., billion), is currently facing a challenging period. Ltd wholly owns.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I wish I had been in Stanford’s CS183 class in 2012, the year Peter Thiel taught it. I was given a copy at TechCrunch Disrupt. Idea 2: Disruption is the wrong mind-set. Today’s mantra of disrupting industries focuses startups on existing competitive markets. These are my three favorite ideas from the book.

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