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. The new framework benefits consumers and sellers, but for the region’s startups, “it opens the door to a plethora of opportunities and new business models, from payments to credit.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Our workshops help startup teams design a customer journey using the pirate metrics framework and turn that into a clear, step-by-step action plan which they can implement or outsource. We work with B2B and B2C SaaS companies, as well as more traditional businesses who are looking to disrupt the way things are done in their industry.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. Polo: Yeah, because looking at the full picture, it’s actually the first time in our history that we’re going to have a specific legal framework for startups. Which is much simpler.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 — the first in-person Disrupt in three years — is in the books. During the first two days of Disrupt, the companies pitched before judges — multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders — for a chance to win $100,000 and the coveted Battlefield Cup. One startup emerged victorious.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

How An Algorithm Transformed The Music Industry And Created The Mobile & Social Web As the music industry recently announced its first annual revenue growth after 15 years of uninterrupted contraction, I thought it was a good time to share some of the things I learnt from reading Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 29, 2025

This post concludes our series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Is there a logical sequence or framework that connects them all? This framework isn’t just theoretical; it’s grounded in rigorous research comparing companies that became great to similar companies that didn’t.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

We’ve seen commerce continue to disrupt our world. 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. They believe their purchase has a direct impact on the world.” It shouldn’t be. Can you accept bitcoin?

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Over the last 15 years I’ve read several hundred business books, and I’ve written one. Across those 15 years, one of the most interesting is a book called The Management Myth, which traces the history of management science back to its less than solid origins. Over the holiday break, I read another 10 business books.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. But I also believe that the backlash that will happen against ICO fraud will likely burn some people to future participation until and unless there are some frameworks for oversight of the market.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

When I was at Open Market in the 1990s, our CEO gave out the recently published book “ Crossing the Chasm ” to the executive team and told us to read it to gain insight into why we had hit a speed bump in our scaling. A glaring example in our investment portfolio is database software company MongoDB.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. ” In his book Antifragile, Taleb expands this theory to all of human development. The Lindy Effect works until it doesn’t.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 13, 2020

They desperately want things to go back to the way they were before, so they pretend that everything is fine—that life as we knew it can resume with minimal further disruption. Our book has been miraculously well-timed. Nassim Nicholas Taleb also addresses this in his 2007 book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

AI, I think, so far is living up to that framework. It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. They generally don’t seek to disrupt, or seek to create, or seek to invent. I believe that it will.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 4, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 The Advantage of Being Prepared for the Unpredictable Every organization will face disruption. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). The question isn’t if it will happen, but how you’ll respond when it does.

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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. ” What’s interesting about the book is David’s an outsider.

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