Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. Why did you write this book? In the book, we devote an appendix to “Where Else?” That’s easy. The formula exists. It’s proven.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Even in person, there’s no way to absorb Disrupt in its entirety. Many reporters filed stories recapping the interviews and panels they conducted at Disrupt, and there will be more to come in the next few days. Full coverage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Duolingo doesn’t want to disrupt the college degree. Walter Thompson.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

More than half of our TBFP Concept Fund investments and about 44 percent of investments from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund have been in IT, software, telecommunication, and internet firms, Brett Kolomyjec, Oklahoma entrepreneur and CEO of Happily, is upbeat about post-pandemic opportunities for businesses in these industries. The conclusion?

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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. Crucial industries will be re-shored.

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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. For companies looking to take advantage of this opportunity, it’s first worth appreciating: What is a plugin? Studying for a calculus exam?

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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? It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove. If you want to read more, Merchants of Debt and King of Capital are good books.). In the 2000s, a wave of PE funds went public.

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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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Revolution

OCTOBER 3, 2022

During the week, our investment teams had the opportunity to join a few of our DC portfolio companies onstage to discuss the ecosystem, as well as its progress and potential. Here are a few of the insights gleaned. Order your copy today. Thank you to the DC Startup Week team for hosting us!

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Great entrepreneurs invest countless hours reinventing, reimagining and disrupting products and services of all kinds. No one likes to admit weaknesses, but just as you look for the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) in a business deal, use that same rubric on yourself. Where are your blind spots?

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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. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. We have to have strong conviction in the quality of the team and the opportunity and commit more quickly.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 9, 2023

Ahead of the book they also released a set of videos explaining some of the concepts. Every year billions of venture capital dollars flow into startups with disruptive innovations. Sustaining: explores opportunities that build on top of a company’s existing business model. Typically these are outside of a company’s comfort zone.

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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. Along with new competition comes new opportunity.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

We firmly believe that all founders must have access to the tech world’s immense opportunities — and to our events. Building more diversity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Eligible TC Include founders can apply to purchase a TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 pass for 75% off the current founder pass rate — starting now and running through August 18.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This presents an opportunity to provide a different spin on how to provide this service. ” 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.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” Like Google, Amazon, ebay, and Facebook, the leading Internet companies in China are interested in disrupting payments. The basis of this argument is really two fold.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2021

Kara Goldin is a force of nature: Authentic, unafraid of failure, and creative in pushing boundaries and disrupting the status quo. She’s inspiring entrepreneurs with her new book, Undaunted. When you’re trying to disrupt an established category: Go outside of your business to search for inspiration and ideas. Goldin said.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Despite the uncertainty in the tourism sector from the Covid pandemic, the PEV team didn’t slow down but instead went on to launch two startups — Elephant Bookings, a software as a service (SaaS) product, and Nomad.Africa, a content-to-commerce magazine. Bookaway books $35M to scale up its ground transportation booking platform.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It also involves the values that guide the community of your employees into the increasingly disrupted future. Gleb Tsipursky serves as the CEO of the boutique future-proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts , which specializes in helping forward-looking leaders avoid dangerous threats and missed opportunities.

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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. They get obsessed and go deep to find market niches and opportunities you never imagined existed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

In a February 2022 paper, scientists at Alphabet-backed DeepMind had an AI observe keyboard and mouse commands from people completing “instruction-following” computer tasks, like booking a flight, to learn how to do them itself. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. I think that by having observability data in that moment, it’s going to open up a lot of opportunities. I’m a data scientist, so I know how overwhelming data can be,” said Lawler.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

By now, we’re all familiar with the classic persona of the Bay Area-located, hoodie-wearing techie, who tells their team to “move fast and break things” in order to “disrupt” entire industries. And of course, nothing quite says “humble beginnings” quite like Jeff Bezos selling books online out of his garage.

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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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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. The world continues to beat a path to your door until one day, when seemingly out of nowhere, the disruptor gets disrupted. In this era of endless innovation, there is only one thing you can do to stay competitive: you must learn how to disrupt yourself.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

First, it is snapping up Blinkist , a startup out of Berlin that had built a platform to discover and read abbreviated versions of longer non-fiction books — “Blinks” that typically take no more than 15 minutes to read or listen to. “We see generative AI as a big opportunity,” he said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

With the success of Airbnb and Uber, I saw an opportunity to use my investments as a tool to make a return while moving society forward.”. If you’re not disrupting yourself someone else will be. What inspired you to invest in peer-to-peer marketplaces? I’m always looking for new ways to innovate.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It leads them to greatly underappreciate the likelihood and consequences of disruptive events. Gleb Tsipursky serves as the CEO of the boutique future-proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts , which specializes in helping forward-looking leaders avoid dangerous threats and missed opportunities.

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. There is something inherently exciting about this growth and the opportunities it implies.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. the way in which Miami’s entrepreneurs, investors, and elected officials are publicly embracing and activating this opportunity. 2021: The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest & the End of “Silicon X Syndrome.”

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. In my book, I collects all the best scholarships, fellowships, and other programs for high-achieving young people. . 1) Your school.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The concept was both powerful and incredibly disruptive. He wrote a bestselling book on computer science and robotics at the age of 16 and has since written or co-authored six more books on artificial intelligence. That’s actually the title of a book by Ryan Holiday, one of my favorite authors. The Obstacle is The Way.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

As co-founder at Radical Ventures and Singularity University ’s chair for entrepreneurship and open innovation, Pascal is focused on creating new business models for success and positively embracing disruption. GLC is EO’s flagship leadership event, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Last fall, before GPT-4 was announced, I decided, “Could I use these tools to help me write a science fiction book?” It was terrible at writing all of the book. It just wasn’t good at giving you chapters of well-formed prose with character development and all of the things that you would want in a good book.

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

Most were either trying to play catch up to startups that had come out of nowhere to disrupt their industries or to existing competitors who had gotten an earlier start at digital transformation. In the wake of COVID-19, duopolies will be more disruptive than any other business force we’ve seen before.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Want a free Disrupt pass? Today, we bring you a great book recommendation from our very own Dominic-Midori: Long out of print since its original publishing in the 1980s, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century, and it’s supremely good news that it’s available again.

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