TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. R2X is now referred to as R2). There are multibillion dollar industries that can be disrupted if autonomous vehicles become successful.” “And that’s understandable. .” “And that’s understandable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a point of reference, when Peak was acquired for $1.8 On one side, the genre has been around for years now, and so the time is ripe to try to disrupt it. He has joined Spyke’s board of directors with this round. billion by Zynga, it had raised a mere $19 million in 10 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. And one that’s working really surprisingly well is the disruption insurance.”

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. How to find a job as a VC scout. How to get a job in venture capital.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds can be referred to as Uber for freelance marketing services. 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? The Concept. The SAAS works on a simple revenue model. The Value Proposition.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Armed with a handful of patents and some cool reference speakers (i.e. We believe the latter, in particular, will really disrupt the market. None of them have seen anything like this before — this is truly disruptive innovation.” If say, an Echo Dot can have the same sound as the Sonos One, or a soundbar.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As Reid explained it, “total landed cost” refers to the duties, taxes, import and shipping fees someone from another country might pay when purchasing items from the U.S. As part of the investment Todd MacLean, managing partner at Silversmith Capital Partners, joined the Zonos board of directors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

One story from The Verge referred to Kindbody as the “SoulCycle” of fertility, pointing out that it sells fertility services and “empowerment” to 25-year-olds. It’s kind of a stretch, but I can see how the company could be compared to the aesthetic-driven facade of The Wing. Barbara Collura, president of Resolve.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. “The market wasn’t so established and meal companies, such as Rappi, were just getting started and reaching their growth phase,” Lloreda added.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities. Doll is joining the board with this round.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

He referred to insurance as a “spaghetti web of money movement” where payments can take up to 100 days to get to the insurance carrier from the customer as it makes its way through intermediaries. Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M. Ascend app.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The plates were a market ripe for disruption.” It’s also in Africa and in China and in Australia; all the same across the board. ” Edit note: An earlier version of this story refers to the product as a ‘number plate,’ which turns out to be a Britishism. In the U.S.,

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

You’ll find dozens of articles on keeping your deck to 10 slides or how you must have a board of advisers slide, but we base our thesis on some more tangible examples. This is the set of slides you’ll find in those references. I’ve seen it used to refer to a sales deck. What’s going on? Stakes get higher.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Counsell said he wanted to found Stable after he realized how little innovation the industry has seen since 1848 when the Chicago Board of Trade opened its doors with a mission to provide buyers and sellers of crops financial certainty. “I Payouts are automated and reference the local or highly correlated index to minimize basis risk. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

.” “We also give every woman a full personalized plan — that includes ways to help reduce any type of disruptive bacteria, ways to promote their protective bacteria and ways to overall maintain their vaginal health based on their personal life experiences,” she adds.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact enterprises refer to SMEs (small-medium enterprises), SGBs (small growing businesses) and micro enterprises operating at the crossroads of entrepreneurship and social and/or environmental impact. Together, we can turn ambition into action and make our vision a reality in communities around the world.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Collab Capital. We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 25, 2015

It’s also made harder by the fact that the process is kept private from nearly everyone in order to avoid disruption. While we met several experienced and successful software leaders in this process, consensus at the board level was that prior demonstrated large-scale success as a CEO was a requirement. He inspires confidence.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Collab Capital. We are committed to open-sourcing our learnings and materials.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

If factories in China stop or suffer disruptions, all of the manufacturing that involves or requires PCBs would, too. How Fictiv is making hardware manufacturing more like building software “Imagine any device with a circuit board in it,” Govshteyn said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. Micromax eventually sunset its global business operations. “By that time, the iron had become cold.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. This is the same board role that emerged from the Dutch East India Company to provide more transparency to investors. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The good news is all of these threats can be addressed, some more easily than others, but with some effort and focus (and you’ll have to get your team on board) it can be done. But those small disruptions can save you from even bigger issues down the road. Ransomware. ? But don’t let that dissuade you. Where are we most vulnerable?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. While there’s some level of autonomy on-board here, the system still requires two humans for the process.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. Are there back channel references, deeper information discovery? And like the modern cloud based CRM system was somewhat novel and new.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

And not to get too far ahead of myself, but some (including me) have maintained that a disruption in some part of the US financial system in 2023 was going to force the Fed to reverse the tightening cycle we’ve been in for the past year — and it would appear that we’re right on track. The Fed essentially cashed the checks of the government.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

The brain’s inherent ability to strengthen neural connections or create new connections to acquire new skills over time or heal from injury is referred to as neuroplasticity. By creating and strengthening audio-motor pathways in the part of the brain responsible for movement, patterns can be altered and improved.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Weirdly enough, while clear communication seems straightforward and easy to do on paper, it’s one of the hardest things to achieve with so many people of different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences on board. Most importantly, make sure you listen to understand, not just to respond. Some people hear but don’t truly listen.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I have been evangelizing to founders for years to be more thoughtful about how startups update investors and run board meetings so I would be pretty hypocritical if I wasn’t willing to try and be more effective myself. So I decided to change up our format a bit. Here’s a short sample of what we now do.

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