Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Is this an area where there are lessons to be learned from that and ways to accelerate technologies to the battlefield? How does that actually look in terms of a successful change in strategy? Is that, I realize it’s still early days in terms of what happened, but counter-UAS, counter-drone systems have been a big topic.

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500

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. Since 2010, we’ve.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

Annie Cheng is active in the Seattle chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ‘s Accelerator programme, which empowers entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow their businesses. Why did you join EO Accelerator? Learn to make pizza at noon on a Wednesday?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Creating a winterization strategy for a startup is a less straightforward process, however. A 3-year outlook “is a more appropriate time horizon for collecting more information so you can decelerate even further (with cash to pivot) if things are worse in 12 months, or accelerate if things are better in 18 months,” he advises.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 4, 2023

With this, Lumotive now has over $56 million in total investments that is could use to further accelerate development of new projects and the delivery of optical semiconductor devices that will enable the next generation of lidar sensors. The additional cash came from USAA, Uniquest, and Samsung Ventures.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Rolling ten-year returns have steadily declined across hedge fund strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3% annually over the last twenty years.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. As a VC firm, we’ve had to adapt many aspects of our business as well.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

” TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 is underway! Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. ” Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. . ” Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

I don’t want to get into the due diligence conversation yet again, and investors leaning on data to dictate their investment decisions is anything but a new strategy. As we spoke about on the latest Equity , Plaid has matured to host a growing startup accelerator, acquire companies and clearly expand its strategic ambitions.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, it quickly evolved into a platform facilitating remote team management for over 40 companies globally, providing job opportunities amidst the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeshua’s Fundraising Strategies for Founders: Consider whether venture capital funding is essential; not all businesses need it.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

At the end of the day, you want a thought partner who’s aligned with your strategy.” There’s a cottage industry of folks figuring out how to stack tax credits from the inflation Reduction Act to accelerate sustainable initiatives. Think of who you want to partner with one, five, and ten years down the line.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years. Studios are causing this precise disruption to the traditional ways of building companies and how to invest in them. With larger funds also come more rules and structures around the investment thesis and strategy.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The takeaways : It takes a village to foster a strong startup ecosystem; While there is no hard and fast science to building a community where startups thrive, several factors play an essential role: local media, corporations, accelerators and incubators, startups and tentpole companies, universities, local government, and investors; Tapping into the (..)

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Founders who apply for the TC Early Stage Pitch Deck Teardown will automatically be considered for the Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt , this September, in San Francisco. Ginny Miller, 1Sharpe Ventures Ginny oversees venture investing and platform strategies for 1Sharpe Ventures (1SV).

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

The executive has a background in strategy and management consulting that progressed into a career in product development for top tech companies like Google and Amazon. So YC viewed this as a major disruptive play. When we met, I think the breakthrough was just the unique story. Is that still a good method?

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

. “Our combined forces of The Switch’s strong presence in North America and Tata Communications’ global position will create a formidable powerhouse in the global media ecosystem helping enterprises harness emerging digital consumption patterns to drive innovation and disruption.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

It will also enable the company to accelerate acquisitions of Fulfillment By Amazon brands, invest in technology development and further build out its team. We’ve been able to accelerate our business plan across all fronts, including acquisitions, technology and team building.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Don’t worry, it’s for fun reasons: We want to be the first to tell you about the awesomeness that is our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield companies. News Drops from Disrupt. The newsletter is a little later than usual today and for the next three days. Find ’em in our special Battlefield section belooooow! Christine and Haje.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The firm has created a framework that will uniquely help the earliest stage companies develop innovative cyber solutions that will also help accelerate product-market fit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. Lester touts the company’s success as “the first major disruptive innovation in the soda category in over 40 years since Coca-Cola launched Diet Coke in 1981.”. soft drink industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Brick & Mortar Ventures , headed by Darren Bechtel of the Bechtel family, is teaming up with BuiltWorlds , which describes itself as a network of buildings and infrastructure professionals, to launch an early-stage accelerator program called Formwork Labs. We hear from early-stage companies that they want access to customer feedback. “So

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

.” Just as virtualization and then container technology transformed CPU-based workloads over the last decades, Run:AI is bringing orchestration and virtualization technology to AI chipsets such as GPUs, dramatically accelerating both AI training and inference.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

billion valuation — revealed that the company’s new strategy will impact 15% of its roles. A spokesperson told me via email that “the reorganization impacted nearly all teams and the decision was in service to the larger strategy we have been enacting at Notarize, and will enable us to move faster to best serve our customers.”

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is particularly true of industries where technology is disrupting business models. Innovative Startups versus Replicative Business Models Conduct a market test of a business idea, if the business being started will introduce innovations that may disrupt and industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Investors should bring a local strategy that makes them an asset to Latin America’s startup ecosystem. Investors should be pursuing a long-term strategy that will bring more consistency to the local ecosystem as a whole. Only disrupt when it adds value. Investors should look for younger markets.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Being a small business owner yourself, you must plan and implement the best business growth strategies to shine in the ongoing year. The event roped in the following experts to discuss the findings of the Business Leader Survey and leading strategies to help you grow this year, including: Jason Balk , CFO Adtegrity.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

But he has certainly developed the technology for electric cars to outperform gas-burning vehicles in acceleration, speed, and energy efficiency. Climate change from a hotter planet will push the private sector to accelerate solutions in clean energy, manufacturing, and transportation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Koa is one of 20 companies competing for $100,000 and the Disrupt cup in this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition. Before starting Koa, Roman previously led strategy at Helium Health, one of Africa’s well-funded health tech startups. “I’m bullish on our team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

” “The funding will strengthen our balance sheet and accelerate further development of our integrated life insurance software platform and wealth products to better serve our global customer base,” Romero told TechCrunch via email. We then evolved to focus on a core set of solutions where we knew we could be the best.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. And so [as an investor] you’re really in it for the long term strategy,” Varanasi said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. “The core strategy is to continue to develop new vehicle categories,” Radenbaugh said. The funds will be used to scale in just about every sector of its business, Radenbaugh said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

FOMO isn’t a strategy, it’s a tactic. Shell’s Gamechanger Accelerator selects three companies for its energy transition accelerator. Secondly, we are already well into planning TechCrunch Disrupt 2021! I think this is the best framing I’ve seen about how to drum up excitement for a startup as a founder.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2016

A lot of accelerators treat solo founders the same way--making it an implied requirement to participate. Just don't go picking someone who really doesn't compliment you just because it's some kind of VC rule. The same holds true for VC funds. A lot of limited partners wouldn't participate in funds run by a solo GP.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

In recent years, the tech and venture scene in Latin America has been growing at an accelerated pace. The fund’s strategy is to go after the companies that are not actively raising capital. “ We like sectors that are prone for disruption in Latin America and that require local customization,” Maciel said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping. Dear Sophie: Any unique immigration strategies for quick hiring? Are there any unique strategies that you would recommend we explore?

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