Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The Middle East consists of developing nations and, sadly, we are consumers of innovation and create very little of it ourselves. We hardly invent any new technologies and don’t invest enough in research and development,” Suhail says. “I Promoting Disruption. Contributing to Sustainable Development. An Unreasonable Idea.

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

Most were either trying to play catch up to startups that had come out of nowhere to disrupt their industries or to existing competitors who had gotten an earlier start at digital transformation. Of course, these boards were missing the point. . Finding ways to mitigate risk and save money always seems easier than growing the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Today I’m excited to announce we’ve recently raised $30 million in growth finance led by 8VC , with Kimmy Scotti joining our board. Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. years of software development.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. Your board and investors even consider you the Mark Zuckerberg or Evan Spiegel of your industry. The world continues to beat a path to your door until one day, when seemingly out of nowhere, the disruptor gets disrupted. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Whether you’re already in the fundraising process or plan to be in the future, be sure to read “A crash course on corporate development” that Venrock VP Todd Graham shared with us this week. Let’s make a deal: A crash course on corporate development. Let’s make a deal: A crash course on corporate development.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 5, 2018

” A few hours later, as I boarded the plane home, I read Fred Wilson’s post on Buffett and Munger’s critique of cryptocurrency investing. The speculators believe great investments develop competitive advantage through innovation, disruption and displacement. They speculate and bet on disruption to win.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it. Incumbents can’t react.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

After numerous discussions we held the line and all agreed as a board that profitability was much more important than chasing new markets and that perfecting our systems and methods was critical before we expanded and just increase the scope of our problems to solve. Startups are messy and development is seldom linear and up-and-to-the right.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

Play Ventures invests in the gaming industry – from free-to-play and web3 game development studios to gaming services, including infrastructure and tooling. We see ourselves as a mix of cheerleaders, enablers (when it makes sense), sanity checks, and sounding boards. We are also in the midst of launching a new fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The future of TV will follow the rule of Deflationary Economics as I outline influenced by the book The Innovator’s Dilemma. The production quality is terrible” I say, “ Please study The Innovator’s Dilemma because it predicts the disruption of your industry presciently.” And the show develops like this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. That little online book company. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital. Open source became a movement – a mentality. Suddenly infrastructure software was nearly free. Amazon changed our industry. Not Google.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. It had eight gigabytes of storage. It connected via firewire, not USB. Tell stories.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). When I publicly Tweeted that all companies should be gross margin positive many people pointed out that Amazon wasn’t profitable for many years. Gross margin positive !=

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Russia invaded Ukraine last week, which, in addition to being a human rights tragedy, is going to affect industries far and wide as supply chains become even further disrupted than they were before war broke out. This week, co-founder and CTO Xiaodi Hou succeeded Cheng Lu as president and CEO and succeed Mo Chen as Chairman of the Board.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

I’m sitting at my computer now at 9.00pm writing this – which is an hour earlier than I normally write (there are about 8 women at my kitchen table having a book club (aka excuse to drink wine & gossip so I’m locked in another room writing. And look at the valuation creep across the board in the past year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

To fund development of the marketplace, the team has raised around $4 million in total to date — mainly comprised of a $3.6M To fund development of the marketplace, the team has raised around $4 million in total to date — mainly comprised of a $3.6M “So it’s like building an advisory board for yourself.”

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As it was with crypto, sometimes this leads to the development of “new investment rules” that crowd out traditional norms. The Lack of a Legitimate Board. Delaware law requires a board of directors, and these directors are tasked with a “fiduciary duty” to look after the best interest of the corporation. Theranos) is another.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. I wanted to ask you, why did you decide to write the book? around the book. This is different, right?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

Instead of giving shoes One for One, TOMS is committing 1/3 of profits to grassroots goods, developing deep partnerships with local organizations, and providing them with cash grants. We’ve seen commerce continue to disrupt our world. Is it any surprise that Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify is now on the board of directors for Coinbase?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

By now, we’re all familiar with the classic persona of the Bay Area-located, hoodie-wearing techie, who tells their team to “move fast and break things” in order to “disrupt” entire industries. And of course, nothing quite says “humble beginnings” quite like Jeff Bezos selling books online out of his garage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

He says they looked at various fintech verticals in 2017, but decided to go for an across-the-board API approach. HUBUC says it now covers 58 territories, working with products such as travel booking payments, marketing and media spend, and employee benefits. Customers include Mastercard, Wagestream, PayFlow, OkTicket and Declarando.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Steve Singh, former founder and CEO of corporate expense and travel software company Concur, is an investor at Madrona Venture Group and leads Spotnana’s board as chairman. Joining him on the board as part of the investment is ICONIQ investor and former CFO of Expedia Greg Stanger.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. She literally encourages you to draw things upside down. For others they swear by music.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

Not only can mentors evaluate new avenues for the startup, but they can connect the board to established professionals if they need further guidance in other areas of the business, such as marketing, sales, or design. No course, mentor, or book alone will provide the key to success. A mentor doesn’t have to break the bank.

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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. Grab lunch, read a book, or go for a quick walk.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

By now, we’re all familiar with the classic persona of the Bay Area-located, hoodie-wearing techie, who tells their team to “move fast and break things” in order to “disrupt” entire industries. And of course, nothing quite says “humble beginnings” quite like Jeff Bezos selling books online out of his garage.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I frame the work as a large research and development exercise, run a number of experiments, continue the ones that are working and seem to have traction, discontinue and replan the ones that are not. But throw in a global pandemic and the disrupting realities of life and that challenge gets amplified exponentially.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

Since Arrested Development is back I thought I’d resurrect Gob Bluth’s answer when he was told he needed a “business model” – he quickly figured out that he was missing one so he asked Starla, the Bluth company secretary, if she would be his business model. INNOVATOR’S DILEMMA.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The New York-based startup has developed lease management software for commercial real estate tenants and brokers. Fun fact about the startup: Other than two of its co-founders, its board is female. Enter Occupier.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Last year was a disaster across the board thanks to a global pandemic, economic uncertainty and widespread social and political upheaval. Twilio CEO says wisdom lies with your developers. “Lawson’s basic philosophy in the book is that if you can build it, you should,” says Ron. Hello, Extra Crunch community!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Workiz’s scheduling tools essentially work like a shared Google Calendar to help match people with skills, locations and jobs to get work booked and done faster. ” Argov is joining the board with this round. Image: Workiz. We are delighted to join the Workiz team.”

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OurCrowd

APRIL 15, 2022

Startup of the Week: NeuReality: Slashing AI costs across the board. Artificial intelligence technology is disrupting almost every industry from agriculture to retail to transportation, but it doesn’t come cheap. AI deployment is held back by hardware costs and software complexity. NYT: Freightos has answers for supply-chain woes.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 15, 2022

Startup of the Week: NeuReality: Slashing AI costs across the board. Artificial intelligence technology is disrupting almost every industry from agriculture to retail to transportation, but it doesn’t come cheap. AI deployment is held back by hardware costs and software complexity. NYT: Freightos has answers for supply-chain woes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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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. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 23, 2021

Freightos adds Qatar Airways to WebCargo roster Qatar Airways, the world’s second-largest cargo airline, has signed onto WebCargo’s digital freight marketplace created by OurCrowd portfolio company Freightos , which gives freight forwarders the ability to quickly compare live rates and capacity, and electronically book shipments.

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