Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. These were the knob-twiddling soundboard jockeys who actually mixed the albums. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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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. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology. They brought the idea to market and have gotten a $5 million seed investment led by Upfront Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. On one side, the genre has been around for years now, and so the time is ripe to try to disrupt it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” I have never used this space to offer advice, but if you believe you have a good idea for a startup — go for it. Mixing the personal with the professional in startup fundraising.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

.” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. It’s nice to see some other cities put points on the board.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Sungjoon Cho, general partner, D20 Capital.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

You’ll find dozens of articles on keeping your deck to 10 slides or how you must have a board of advisers slide, but we base our thesis on some more tangible examples. We’re going to use that to distill the ideal set of slides for a pitch deck (and combine it with some storytelling ). Who doesn’t love a good story?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

McKinsey & Co found that 25 to 36 percent of small businesses could close permanently as a result of the change in shopping behavior and disruption from just the first four months of the COVID-19 outbreak. And now that peak season is upon us, competing with retail giants for holiday shopping dollars is going to be an uphill battle.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

From humble origins a decade ago as a translation platform for news agencies, it’s now used by 500 million people across the world to learn Spanish, English, French and more, all while generating bookings of $190 million in 2020. The Duolingo EC-1 comprises four main articles numbering 12,200 words and a reading time of 48 minutes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. To connect with consumers on an emotional level, “you need a mix of goodwill, what-we-stand-for ideology, social prestige and customer delight — among other affinity-building ingredients.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

It gives you the chance to exhibit your startup for free at TechCrunch Disrupt in October and win the $100,000 prize. Another bite of the Apple : Apple’s third-quarter profits were a mixed bag, but iPhone revenue bucked the trend (even as smartphone shipments are down globally ), with a 3% year-over-year revenue jump, Brian reports.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Optibus , which uses AI to help public transportation bodies and their mass transit partners plan and operate their networks, has raised $100 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its product set and wider business footprint, CEO and co-founder Amos Haggiag said in an interview in London this week.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. However, I quickly realized that creating coherent images using just words was a challenge.” Move over, software.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

I’m going to say almost nothing about this, other than quoting Darrell’s article : “every time Musk does something asinine and moronic, we in the media wrestle with the anguish of whether or not we actually have to write about this stupid s**t.” In a nutshell: Customers are not buying as much as they used to. TC+) Hard, where?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. In other news, TechCrunch’s Summer Party yesterday was a major success — thanks to all who turned up! I can’t wait to see your smiling faces there.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 27, 2017

We’re seduced by its convenience: more than 50% of plastic is used once and thrown away. In humans, certain plastics are known to disrupt the endocrine system, impair neurological function, and have been linked to cancer, obesity, early puberty and recurrent miscarriages. Plastic seemed like a miracle when it was invented in 1907.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 7, 2023

Also, the complex nature of software products and the teams that run them means that the pricing page is a pretty easy place to make updates without disrupting other work. Or are they using the pricing page to make the final decision? How your product is sold — Sales Teams vs Self Service vs a Mix?

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