Gust

DECEMBER 5, 2011

These are usually called ‘disruptive’ technologies. Disruptive technologies and grand new solutions can ultimately change the world, and create a large opportunity, but they are not exciting to early-stage investors for the following reasons: Fundamental changes take a long time to happen.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Since this is my inaugural post here, I decided it would fit the occasion to list the five things I value most in an startup investment proposal. I don’t really care nearly as much about the detailed numbers as what market the deal disrupts and what it changes. What I say here is my opinion and mine alone. Startup experience.

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Gust

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Our product is truly disruptive technology.” Disruptive technologies typically take years to catch on, which is longer than they can afford to wait. If they see you getting traction, the giants will awake quickly and step on you. This advantage is not sustainable. Investors will suspect you have a technology looking for a solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. We spoke about the disruption of VC through crowd funding. If you have some time I highly recommend watching it. Venture Capital.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

When this startup (yes, it was one once) broke into the radio business with its cheap, low-quality, portable radios, the existing giants didn’t counter, for to do so would’ve disrupted their very profitable “serious” radio business. And other startups lacked Sony’s then-proprietary transistor technology, so they couldn’t compete directly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

3) There are too many entrepreneurs still running around more excited about entrepreneurship than they are about going deep and solving a particular problem. These people are going to get crushed by the enormous complexity of the problems they're trying to solve.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polo: One of the main things that makes this law pretty solid is that it comes from a dialogue that we held with the different sectors of innovative entrepreneurship. So it’s a very solid law and everything that went in it really reflects the long conversations that we held with innovative entrepreneurship in Spain.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Angel Investing, Venture Capital, and Mentoring. Many generalist online communities also have verticals focused on entrepreneurship, e.g., LunchClub or Meetup. For pre-seed companies , we invest and act as co-founders while for post-seed companies , we act as early-employees and specifically focus on company growth.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With less than two months remaining in 2021, Congress is again facing a number of deadlines that will impact the angel investing community. ACA has established a coalition with Carta, the Center for American Entrepreneurship, National Venture Capital Association, Bio, and others to amplify our voice. Call your Senator.

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