OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2021

In the world of technology, it seems for a category to truly stand out and earn the ultimate title of “disruptive,” it first must go through a few other nomenclature-related steps. It’s awarded a unique category name. One such category is Paytech. Read more here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

For Tom Patterson, CEO of the men’s underwear startup Tommy John , disrupting a saturated industry meant solving problems people came to believe they just had to live with. “In SOLUTION: To disrupt a market, look for common problems or pain points that remain unsolved. A perfect example exists in the underwear industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I know some people think the whole market has been disrupted and startups and funding work differently these days. Total disruption on the funding market? I have too many portfolio companies without exits and I want to see some returns before I put too much more money into this category.&#. How’d that work out?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 17, 2018

Next, I began experimenting in earnest with four areas of my life: morning routine, food, sleep, and what I call the catch-all category—such as life without alcohol, much less sugar, etc. If background noises are bothering you, consider a fan or earplugs—something to drown out the disruptions and provide your senses a rest.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We need to acknowledge that COVID-19 fundamentally disrupted our world, turning it upside down in a few short weeks in February and March 2020. You’ll have to put more thought into dealing with older adults over 60 or anyone with underlying health conditions in your household (including yourself if you fit either category).

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

The time has never been better for new technology to disrupt these alarming trends. BlueNalu is pioneering the category of “cellular aquaculture” in which living cells are isolated from fish tissue, placed into culture media for proliferation, and then assembled into great- tasting fresh and frozen seafood products.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Kite struggled to pay the bills, founder Adam Smith revealed in a postmortem blog post , running into engineering headwinds that made finding a product-market fit essentially impossible. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Plenty of folks remain bullish on the eVTOL category, but Kitty Hawk couldn’t stick the landing.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. It's like partnering with people who go on create categories or redefine them in business that move the world forward. And so that's our primary motivation and reason for being.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

That's long enough that you can stay engaged and make real progress, without feeling like it's a grind, while the 5-minute breaks, which never feel far off, give you a chance to freely check Twitter or look at some emails without overly disrupting your workflow. Even I can keep typing that long. I love the Pomodoro Technique.

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StartupNation

MAY 24, 2021

With the disruptions 2020 saw, it’s never too early to start planning for the latter part of the year, the e-commerce marketing that drives it and the order fulfillment that keeps people coming back. It also helps with SEO and keeps your blog fresh and interesting. Would you try again or just close the tab? Everyone wins!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that. It is additive. It is a communication platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? 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. Are you going to do all of this?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. Businessguy Bob On the other hand, having a 35 year veteran of the management consultant consulting industry doesn't mean automatic business success when your industry is being highly disrupted by technology this person doesn't even use.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. “We What’s going to be important in food categories is taste and nutrition, Adam Lowry, co-chairman of OurCrowd portfolio company Ripple Foods , tells Simon Mainwaring in Forbes. Introductions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

We list here all of the active Flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: revenue-based; compensation-based; and blended return streams. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

We list here all of the active Flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: revenue-based; compensation-based; and blended return streams. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Ripple products are currently available in over 20,000 retail stores across the US, where the company has captured ultra-high value customers and driven category expansion of plant-based milk products. The post Newsletter: Our $5M XPrize winner is beating malaria appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. The post Newsletter: Cows on vacation + Digital industrial revolution appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Steinfeld’s business journey included failed acquisitions, partnerships gone wrong, perpetual self-doubt, deaths in his family, budget-limited guerilla marketing, corporate buy-outs, brutal market competition, and a complete disruption of industry leaders, including Amazon and big-box retailers. Top Tech News.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

The World Economic Forum says SqUID’s technological power and its ability to climb and work within existing infrastructures puts it in a unique category of its own: an “Autonomous Climbing Robot.” The post Newsletter: Elon Musk hails “robot future” appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Earned wage access provider DailyPay raises $500M.

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

OurCrowd’s Top 10 Post-Pandemic Tech Trends offers invaluable insight into what will be hot, disruptive and investible in startups for the coming 12 months. The post Newsletter: Car and motorbike safety + Sustaining Israel’s startups appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Watch the full interview here and read the story here. Learn More.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Hear from: Claire Tomkins , PhD, founder and CEO of Future Family, startup veteran who was formerly an Investment Bank advisor and director of Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room accelerator, who will speak on the category potential and her startup’s disruptive solution. Angeline N. Senior Product Data Analyst for Bizaboo (Israel).

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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. cross-posted on Blue Future Partners’s blog.). (written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Respondents. .

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. Dr. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: . Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. Anthos Capital.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 24, 2021

As was the case in Q1 2021, software engineers remain the most in-demand category, with 18% of openings. The post OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q2 2021 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Only 13% of portfolio companies are planning to hire less staff than before the Covid-19 pandemic began in Q1 2020. © OurCrowd 2021.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

This is a market that deserves to be disrupted, because of how it exploits workers,” he says. However, the massive capital pool controlled by high-net worth investors is only now gaining greater access to the category through a platform such as OurCrowd. The current SPAC boom is adding another dimension.

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