American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Quentin Herr , Chief Technology Officer, previously with imec, and one of the foremost researchers in practical superconducting computing They are joined by a powerful advisory board including Brian Kelleher, former SVP of GPU Engineering at NVIDIA, and Phil Carmack, former VP of Silicon Engineering at Google.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

“Inspired by those who fought ovarian cancer, leaving behind learnings and legacies, we are empowered to approach a research manifold still thin in knowledge yet deep in shape and opportunity,” said Neri Oxman, PhD, Co-Trustee of The Pershing Square Foundation.

health

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself. Was this episode from five years ago?

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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. So, how can one navigate the disruptions and mitigate the risks? Work with community resources and local workforce boards. So, how did we get here? Often the labor component of supply chain is overlooked.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2023

Miranda Naiman, a 7-year EO Tanzania member and an unstoppable force for good, is the founder of Empower , a disruptive consulting firm that passionately provides talent, advisory and insight services to clients across the African continent. board director to multiple organisations, coach, mentor and volunteer can weigh us down.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

And having too much money certainly raises board expectations that you will do big things quickly. No board is going to give you $25 million up front and then expect your year-one staff expenditures to be $2 million. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

innovation

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What areas need to be disrupted? I think you're going to see a major shift towards getting youth across the board interested in math and science, on accessible learning on demand, and the positive encouragement of innovation. What areas are going to change?

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing. In 2021, ACA launched its first formal DEI Task Force, made up of a diverse group of ACA members, board leaders, and ecosystem champions. More than ever, we need innovation. We need angels.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

If you fit that description, we want you to apply to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. All competitors — win or lose — bask in, and benefit from, this global, equal-opportunity spotlight. Plenty of perks: Battlefield gladiators are TC Disrupt VIPs. But here’s the thing.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“We’re excited to support Wealth.com’s founding team in this next growth phase, and I look forward to joining their board,” said Elena Sakac h , partner at GV. As we navigate the largest wealth transfer in history, the need and opportunity for estate planning solutions has arguably never been greater.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

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. But every time I talk with senior executives a the big studios or talent agencies I tell the same story, “You know that your industry is being disrupted.

communities

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption.

VC

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. It allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

The fund’s value drivers of Place, Positioning, Partnerships and Policy create a mindset to challenge the norm, and deliberately seek investment opportunities in underrepresented parts of the country without compromising on outcomes or returns. Tell us about your experience as a UN Women Metro New York Chapter board member.

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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. — and we really hope you’ll join us.

capital

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. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. And it would be?—?but

communities

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company. . “Sima.ai

startup

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. FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities. It isn’t new stuff.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Apple saw this potential and took the opportunity to add it to their technology portfolio.” WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity. YouTube’s already doing this. Perhaps we’ll see similar innovations from the Apple-owned WaveOne team soon.

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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. I think what we’re seeing is that the market is now awake to that opportunity. I think what we’re seeing is that the market is now awake to that opportunity.

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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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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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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

program, a SGD 20 million initiative introduced by the Singapore Economic Development Board. By joining forces with Rainmaking APAC, Bain aims to assist clients in validating, building, and scaling new businesses, particularly during this era of necessary innovation driven by emerging technologies and disruptions.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Gerkey assures that there won’t be any disruption in day-to-day activities with respect to OSRF’s oversight of the ROS robotics middleware, the Gazebo 3D robotics simulator and Open-RMF.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The new capital was led by Third Point Ventures , with participation from existing investors Sapphire Ventures, More Capital, Disruptive AI, Vertex Growth, 40North, Samsung Next and TCP. . The market opportunity is tremendous and, given our position as an industry leader, we can penetrate these markets quickly,” Livne said. .

education

TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

” Even so, many entrepreneurs squander this opportunity, often because they direct questions or fail to understand their BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement). So here’s our advice on how teams can smoothly reach an SOC 3 while simultaneously balancing workloads and minimizing disruption to users.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

That news is coming at the same time that Thrasio is changing its leadership: today it announced that Greg Greeley, a former president of Airbnb and a longtime Amazon executive, is joining its board and taking on the role of CEO this August. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., That is our superpower.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Now there are] tens of billions of dollars in value sitting in the private markets and [at the same time] an opportunity to go public and build trust with public shareholders and leverage the early tailwinds of growth. TC: DraftKings was valued at $3 billion when it came out and it’s now valued at $17 billion. Who are its investors?

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. This is a pool of senior executives who can be tapped as board members, interim execs, etc., Who will disrupt investment management, and how? Ongoing information rights. Produce income for platform members.

investing

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. They see a lot of opportunities to leverage our technology,” he said. Markets at TransUnion, is taking a seat on Spring Labs’ board. Spring Labs is one of them.

collaboration

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The response from Boards and their advisers to our solution has been excellent: they recognise our digital solution for retail inclusion brings together both good governance and best execution.” Just as Covid-19 disrupted other aspects of our life, the early months of the pandemic saw a major freeze descend on the world of trading.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

By gaining real world experience and exposing these college students to potential future employers, the program moves LSC’s mission forward to “disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality”. In addition to financial support Third Rock will also serve as a leading voice on the Project Onramp National Advisory Board.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

trillion COVID-19 stimulus package this year that increased funding for affordable healthcare, Wu says opportunities are expanding for startups in this space. Braze set to put points on the board for New York’s startup scene in impending IPO. Braze set to put points on the board for New York’s startup scene in impending IPO.

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