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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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

In “Competing Against Luck,” disruptor and Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen shares his theory for breakthrough innovation: the jobs to be done theory. In the book, he and coauthors Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall and David S. Originally published Feb.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Case in point: competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 in September. We want every game-changing, innovative startup — from anywhere around the world — to have a shot at massive exposure to investors, media and other influential unicorn-makers. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at Disrupt 2021?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2024

Be fearless in the face of failure It sounds like the title of a book, but I’m often in awe when I see how so many of these college students dive headfirst into their ventures, unafraid of the possibility of failure and resilient in bouncing back. They dream big, aiming to disrupt the status quo and change the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One stark reality exposed by the pandemic is “the fragility that 50 years of purposeful globalization has brought to various countries and markets,” writes Rana Foroohar, Financial Times global business columnist, in her new book, Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World. Care jobs will be key.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? If you want to read more, Merchants of Debt and King of Capital are good books.). This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture. in the New Yorker.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Their track record of success and innovation, along with their platform’s growing suite of tools and intuitive user experience has Guesty positioned to define and consolidate its category, working with hosting businesses of all sizes. (For “Guesty is not looking for an exit,” he said.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Elevating the self-care industry Boulevard Capital is the latest in a long line of company innovations aimed at disrupting the status quo, elevating the self-care industry, and empowering business owners and professionals alike to redefine the client experience. to book more than 1 million appointments every month.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

TravelPerk continues to innovate, integrating AI across the product stack to deliver a world-class experience for customers and travelers. TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team. Within the enormous global business travel market, SMBs have remained a largely underserved segment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Read on to learn why Joachimsthaler believes this framework encourages innovation more than any other business model. In your book, The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society , you write that the future is about creating value for everyone.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

Alice Mann’s latest book, Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value Frontiers is an important read for any business leader or entrepreneur who wishes to embrace global challenges as innovation opportunities. Why did you write this book? How do you define future-first?

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

The platform continues to achieve historical milestones, garnering more than 100 million users in its first two months, marking the beginning of a new era of disruption. There is inevitably upheaval and unforeseen pitfalls that come with disruptive new technology, but there are also many reasons for optimism.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend ? Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

I have written about Deflationary Economics (one of my most read posts ever) & The Innovator’s Dilemma before. Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

At GLC, he will address the rapid pace of change, innovation and disruption facing us all?and In partnership with Forbes, Brody produced a documentary series and is writing The Great Re:Write , a book based on it. Master digital disruption with digital reinvention. and what to do about it.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On Wednesday, Erika Brodnock and Johannes Lenhard published their book, “ Better Venture: Improving Diversity, Innovation, and Profitability in Venture Capital and Startups ,” which serves as a guide for those looking to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in the venture capital market. I want to disrupt the system.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The company is booked to deliver over 50 Hadley engines next year, with the Ripley coming into production in the next couple of years, Laurienti said. He likened Ursa Major to a company like Intel, which is constantly innovating more powerful processors and outsourcing that expertise to brands like Dell and Lenovo.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Innovation. How valuable are these legacy businesses? And they have. ” Ha.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Potential to DISRUPT business CISOs are accustomed to constant innovation. Be prepared to tell the CISO how your solution can be deployed alongside existing technologies without causing disruptions. You can not adequately communicate how your solution can be deployed in phases without causing disruption.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“It’s the classic innovator’s dilemma.” ” For investors, the disruptiveness Kettle is bringing is what attracted them, although longer term you have to imagine that the big incumbents can’t not be considering how to update their data models, too. “The industry hasn’t updated,” he said.

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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.”. Reading all these books had a powerful cumulative effect that helped reprogram me into an unreasonable thinker. Promoting Disruption.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We studied that very challenge while researching our new book, “The Entrepreneur’s Faces.” Ideas are the critical spark in the first stages of a startup: Ideas for a new product, for a disruptive service or engaging customer experience. We found that new ventures require radically different talents and skills. Remember Kara Goldin ?

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and change-makers working on innovative startups, social enterprises and SME’s around Aotearoa New Zealand. They know this problem well, they’re from the industry and they’re now trying hard to disrupt and call it their legacy mission.

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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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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. Peter Drucker’s mantra — innovate or die — has finally come to pass.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

Traditionally, corporations that invest in innovation during a crisis outperform peers by up to 30% during recovery, a recent McKinsey report reveals. Ironically, the same report also reveals that current corporate commitment to innovation has been decreasing as CEOs prioritize their core business in the wake of Covid-19.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. For many of those cities– who have been laying the foundational bricks of innovation and entrepreneurship in their communities for the last decade or more?—?this Part I) Cities are Like Startups Cities are like startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

With book sales booming during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, the humble written word has suddenly drawn the limelight from VCs and founders. Bookshop now hosts 1,100 stores on its platform, and it has more than 30,000 affiliates who curate book recommendations. If Gutenberg were alive today, he’d be a very busy angel investor.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope exists to bolster our national workforce by facilitating the adoption, expansion and success of apprenticeship programs through innovative, efficient and powerful software solutions. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

I’m always looking for new ways to innovate. If you’re not disrupting yourself someone else will be. I recommend hiring or acquiring a team of young, scrappy entrepreneurs to try and innovate upon your business constantly.”. What inspired you to invest in peer-to-peer marketplaces?

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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 Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 31, 2023

How to Build a Business AI Won’t Kill Overnight Entrepreneurs everywhere have been trying to grasp the impact of the recent artificial intelligence innovations and how they may disrupt countless industries. If you’re deep in the entrepreneurial trenches and have a story to tell, we’d love to read it (and publish it).

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