American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

Recipient researchers’ projects were chosen for their potential for high-impact innovation against ovarian cancer or translating insights from other fields. Selections were made with input from a prestigious scientific advisory board, with a focus on scientific rigor, innovation, and real-world clinical promise.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What areas need to be disrupted? New York has quickly become one of the best places in the world to start a company, but if you look at demographics, Brooklyn is a unique area whose innovator and maker population outnumbers most other cities in the country. More Accessible Innovation Resources for All.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

And now, our anti-tech progress Mayor is helping NYC join an exclusive list of cities that have stood in the way of Uber providing an innovative consumer service that is in high demand. Well, what are the chances of that given our anti-innovation policies regarding these two companies?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

I’m involved with a few boards where we have taken a position of revenue-centric spending. Focus on Growth and Innovation. For the future, focus on business model innovation. If your business has taken a beating given the sector that you are in, is it possible to innovate out of this crisis?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Wherever your business sits on the spectrum, you’ll want to follow these tips to navigate supply chain disruption. Most Popular: The Benefits of Encouraging Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace. So, how can one navigate the disruptions and mitigate the risks? Work with community resources and local workforce boards.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. The collective wisdom of the establishment to this huge innovation?

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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. I believe the changes to the industry will be lasting rather than temporal change.

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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. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. It takes options off of the table.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation. You can help local entrepreneurs get their first deal done and the innovation ought to benefit you.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We’re less than a month away from TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco! Hershenson also serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mudd College and on the Advisory Council of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves on the board of Friends of Hudson River Park.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive. This has been a very welcome addition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. Debate is one of the most important ingredients in innovation.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Today’s interview was with Tige ( interesting to follow on Twitter ), who has been involved with funded and/or sitting on the boards of Revolution Money, Living Social, Flexcar (now ZipCar) and UberMedia. Big companies just don’t seem to innovate the same way. It is very unique to have a single source of a fund that size.

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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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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. I want to encourage more innovative thinking.”. Promoting Disruption. The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We are on a mission to modernize estate planning through innovative technology,” said Ra fael Loureiro , chief executive officer at Wealth.com. Ready industry adoption attracted top investor funding for the three-year-old startup’s innovative platform. GV (formerly Google Ventures) led the recently closed $30 million Series A round.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) continues its mission of catalyzing innovation and fostering growth in the technology sector with its recent investments in eight dynamic companies. This innovative approach is set to make significant contributions to cancer research and treatment.

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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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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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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

It’s a vital question, and it’s why we’ve invited three investors — who we think know their stuff — to share their insight and advice on the TechCrunch+ stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco. She is currently a board director for Workwhile and a board observer for Outschool. .

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Tell us about your experience as a UN Women Metro New York Chapter board member. What industries are you excited for the next generation of founders to disrupt? UN Women’s primary mission is to strive for gender equality by delivering programs, policies, and standards that uphold women’s rights globally.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield is one of the most popular parts of our annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference which is happening on September 21-23 this year. Garvey herself currently sits on the boards of Riipen, FourthRev, Holberton School and Ellevation Education. Her experience in edtech extends back years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Image Credits: WaveOne WaveOne’s main innovation was a “content-aware” video compression and decompression algorithm that could run on the AI accelerators built into many phones and an increasing number of PCs. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

The acquisition will support businesses throughout the region in enhancing their innovation capabilities and successfully launching and expanding new ventures. program, a SGD 20 million initiative introduced by the Singapore Economic Development Board.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. If Nuro is to become the generation-defining company its founders desire, it will be due as much to innovation in regulation as advances in the technology it develops. So when the company petitioned the U.S. They were wrong.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 25, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) continues its mission of catalyzing innovation and fostering growth in the technology sector with its recent investments in eight dynamic companies. This innovative approach is set to make significant contributions to cancer research and treatment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology. Pony.ai, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup and relative newcomer to the industry, is now valued at $5.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Soda that serves a purpose, whether that be more healthy or even functional, is the new wave of drinks disrupting the $38 billion U.S. Lester touts the company’s success as “the first major disruptive innovation in the soda category in over 40 years since Coca-Cola launched Diet Coke in 1981.”. soft drink industry.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. Taktile’s innovative technology is transforming how businesses make automated decisions, disrupting the insurance, lending and financial services industries.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trust not only powers successful teams across the board, it’s an essential aspect of a healthy, productive relationship between a founder and his or her employees, remote or otherwise. How will you measure success, both on a project basis and across the board? Here are three critical elements to successfully lead a remote team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Startups digitizing B2B e-commerce and retail in Africa continue to grab the headlines after the pandemic paved the way for widespread offline retail and commerce disruption. And more parties that you find hacking at this kind of speeds up innovation within the space, so that’s super useful. TradeDepot , a Nigeria- and U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi Contributor Share on Twitter Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member and mentor to startups, and an angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. Turnover disrupts the company’s operation, culture and growth trajectory.

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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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