TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

And one of the great advantages of working in a studio is that we get to play around with new innovative ideas all the time. Elephant Bookings is a B2B product that brings hospitality providers online, helping them to increase their occupancy rates by allowing direct bookings.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

She told of the teaching of the Talmud – a book which scholars use to debate doctrine and from which Jewish people are reminded to always learn and to debate. But as I rose in my career (and post MBA) I moved into a role in which I was to advise board-level executives on topics where I was expected to rapidly become an expert.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The concept was both powerful and incredibly disruptive. He wrote a bestselling book on computer science and robotics at the age of 16 and has since written or co-authored six more books on artificial intelligence. Our plan is to continue to innovate against this problem at a massive scale. The Obstacle is The Way.

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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. What matters is the pace of innovation, that is the fundamental determinant of competitiveness. The investors advocate competitive advantage prevents disruption and displacement.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Wilson’s book explores the history of freon, a common refrigerant that was later banned due to its devastating impact on the ozone layer. So here’s our advice on how teams can smoothly reach an SOC 3 while simultaneously balancing workloads and minimizing disruption to users.”. Dear Sophie: Tips on EB-1A and EB-2 NIW?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. That little online book company. Amazon changed our industry. Not Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. And having too much money certainly raises board expectations that you will do big things quickly. If you’re a startup or product person and haven’t read his book Four Steps to Epiphany please do.

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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.” billion views.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. I have the purchase history to prove it.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

“So it’s like building an advisory board for yourself.” “What we’re building is really the phone book of the future,” says Orlic, slotting his elevator pitch into our ~30-minute phone conversation. “None of us in the founding team had any networks to speak of when we were growing up.

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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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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. But for many people the most important driver of innovation is this kind of visualization & self talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

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? In my next book, Gen Z Graduates To Adulthood, the oldest members of Gen Z tell me they are looking for something different in the brands they support than previous generations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model. INNOVATOR’S DILEMMA. I guess this is the ultimate definition of implementing a business model when you’re not clear on strategy! I have written this up before if you’re interested – I call it Deflationary Economics.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The company showcased its service at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley in 2015. Quip is focused on growth, innovation and community building among its over 7.5 As part of the investment, Artem Mariychin, managing director at CSI, is joining the company’s board. Its last publicly announced raise was $40 million in 2018.

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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. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. It isn’t new stuff.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

More experienced founders exist and specific markets, particularly in the Big Four (Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya), show a mix of matured but still open-for-disruption traits. A couple of reasons are behind this sudden surge in unicorn numbers on the continent. International investors participated from pre-seed to Series E stages.

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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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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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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

For example, Jason Calacanis shares in his book Angel the compensation structure for Sequoia’s Scout program: 45% of returns are given to the Scout, 50% to Sequoia, and the remaining 5% to a bonus pool for other Scouts in the program. Further reading: How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The world in which our communications was controlled by the telephone and media companies of 20 years ago would have been much less innovative than what we have achieved, which is precisely why we need to protect future companies not even created yet from anti-competitive behavior. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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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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