Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. It isn’t new stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Investors: TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s investment vehicle; Court Coursey joining board), CompuCredit Holdings, with existing investors Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Omidyar Network, QED Investors, Volition Capital. Other deals. 2.2mm in Series A. It’s a freakin’ cool feature.

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Gust

JULY 3, 2012

As I wrote in Part I of this post , many of the most creative and disruptive startup businesses in recent years have involved the use of intellectual property in innovative, non-traditional ways that defy easy categorization and stretch the boundaries of concepts such as the fair use doctrine in copyright.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It charges $99 for its services of strategic guidance and mediator and $65/hr for every expert that gets on board. How is your offering disrupting the industry? When we are together, we collaborate and develop creative and innovative ideas to grow your business. The SAAS works on a simple revenue model. The Value Proposition.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This article serves as a resource for aspiring entrepreneurs eyeing Singapore as their business launchpad. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. In this guide, we’ll explore the diverse startup programs available in Singapore.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. Post-round, the same metrics framework became our quarterly board template, saving hours of prep. Tips for other founders: 1. Show how insight turns into execution.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. A record number of unicorns found their feet during the same period and valuations rose across the board, report Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm in today’s edition of The Exchange. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. So here’s our advice on how teams can smoothly reach an SOC 3 while simultaneously balancing workloads and minimizing disruption to users.”. How to establish a health tech startup advisory board. How to establish a health tech startup advisory board.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Simon Wu, an investment director with Cathay Innovation, says he’s paying particularly close attention to these areas of convergence : Data and the transition to value-based care. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Braze set to put points on the board for New York’s startup scene in impending IPO.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Eight hundred miles away, New Orleans’ cornetist Charles “Buddy” Bolden was innovating something so new that his contemporaries didn’t have the words to describe it. Two black entrepreneurs, despite living in segregated America, found ways to exercise their creativity and disrupt their worlds. What did they share? The barbershop.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Zendesk’s board of directors is a confident, secure group of individuals. Three trends he’s identified: Moving beyond demand-side innovation. As a result, we’re starting to see “which startups are disruption-proof.”. Image Credits: Bloomberg / Getty Images.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

An disruptive idea marks the start of a startup. Bringing key stakeholders on board like the chief technical officer, chief financial offer, etc. However, for some startups, it’s a essential inflow of capital just to set base for something big that can disrupt the industry. But not all ideas convert into real businesses.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Drives innovation: AI automation is a powerful R&D assistant. The upshot of bringing AI automation into the R&D fold is a significantly faster innovation cycle, products that are often better designed and more thoroughly vetted, and a quicker journey from that initial "what if?" " to a market-ready solution.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

For some context on how the program came about in the first place, check out this article I wrote earlier this year. Bell, a corporate finance attorney and a former White House policy advisor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in a press release. For more details, head here. P.S. Hope to see you there! Applications close August 5.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

But Simon argues that the companies that sell such cards were founded decades ago with very little innovation since. Sheel Mohnot of Better Tomorrow Ventures, who took a seat on Coast’s board as part of the financing, says his firm was impressed by both the size of the opportunity and the team at Coast that’s tackling it. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

These include, most recently, a new analytics engine, called Ridership Insights that provides more granular data based on routes, including boarding and alighting data based on time and date, to make more informed planning decisions. “Optibus combines innovation and public transportation expertise like no one else in the industry.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

I chose to write this article because I want to spotlight the opportunities created by the COVID pandemic. Looking for inspiration to fuel this article, I attended the 2022 Challenger Brands conference hosted by AdWeek. This is not a listicle article. This article is designed to help you get 1% better (every day).

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. And finally, we fuel the process of policy development, with the power of innovative new solutions, data insights and relevant benchmarks from around the world.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

According to Managing Partner Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital, based in Atlanta, is “setting out to disrupt the wealth gap by investing in Black founders building innovative, high growth companies.” We identify great innovative companies with solid business models and help them determine the right growth path for their businesses. “In

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“Entrepreneurship provides opportunities: the opportunity to grow intentionally (I’m attending EO with Harvard Business School ); the opportunity to live flexibly (my family and I spent September hiking the Pacific Northwest); and the opportunity to give back consistently (mentoring other founders, serving on boards, investing in employees, etc.).

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The 30 Most Important Lessons Learned About Developing New Business In this article, we delve into the wisdom of thirty seasoned professionals, including Founders and CEOs, who share their most important lessons learned in developing a new business. By implementing S.M.A.R.T.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 6, 2020

This large-scale global pandemic made healthcare – an industry traditionally slow to adopt innovation because of cumbersome regulatory and governmental pathways, low IT budgets, legacy systems, lack of trained personnel, and more – ripe for disruption. A Physical Transformation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In this article, I will explore the following • What are regulators concerned about • Why is regulation bullish? • Even if executives want to invest in Crypto, how do they justify such an investment to their board and shareholders when even the government’s position isn’t clear? Wen regulation? What kind of regulation can we expect?

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OurCrowd

JULY 2, 2020

This large-scale global pandemic made healthcare – an industry traditionally slow to adopt innovation because of cumbersome regulatory and governmental pathways, low IT budgets, legacy systems, lack of trained personnel, and more – ripe for disruption. A Physical Transformation . Similarly, TytoCare.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Marco Franzoni, Managing Partner, Disruptive Labs , observes: “If you are an early stage founder looking to build a product or scale faster, Venture Studios can be a great option. Affiliate with a private equity or VC firm in your space, as a board member, consultant, scout, EIR, operating partner, or full-time team member.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. . Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Many of my board members are still there, a decade later. . Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. We should be looking at China for the real innovations now. I like healthcare a lot.

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