TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Tess Hatch, vice president and partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 as a judge for our Startup Battlefield competition. Tess was also recently named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 in VC. By the way startups, you can still apply now until May 27 to take part in the competition here !

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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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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. I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. By definition?—?I’m

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

While books and talks galore have been published on pitching, the reality is that the art of the pitch deck is a constantly changing fashion. So come join Hershenson (and all of our other fantastic speakers ) at Disrupt 2021 online this September 21-23.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. Not bad, hey?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Startups and VC. Carly writes that cybercrime operation RansomHouse (why do these sound like book publishers?) We enjoyed Ingrid ’s story about Speechmatics, a company that raised $62 million for its approach to speech-to-text artificial intelligence. is supposedly behind the extortion of some data from U.S. chipmaker AMD.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Mediahuis Ventures, the VC arm of European media group Mediahuis, led the round with participation also from Raine Ventures, the VC arm of Raine Group (the investment bank that’s overseeing the sale of Chelsea FC), and Evli Growth Partners. “So I thought, surely a subscription model would work here.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

This morning , Alex Wilhelm examined Q4 VC totals for Europe, which had its lowest deal count since Q1 2019, despite a record $14.3 Asia’s VC industry, which saw $25.2 That’s 2020 VC around the world in a nutshell.” ” How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020. billion in investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

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. We spoke about the disruption of VC through crowd funding. If you have some time I highly recommend watching it. Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. To really assess what opportunities the VC industry has over the next decade, one needs to first look at some of the root causes of poor returns in the past decade. THAT is disruption. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

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. Read the fine print: You must apply for and book your TC Include Founder pass through the TC Include Founders page.

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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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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. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross.

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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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JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. 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.

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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. It was described by security experts as a “design failure of catastrophic proportions,” and demonstrated the potentially far-reaching consequences of shipping bad code. Image Credits: AppMap.

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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

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. Without further ado!

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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. It’s now an email newsletter phenomenon with 7 million subscribers and $28 million in VC funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

I read this book, " Why We Make Mistake s " and it talks a lot about "recall bias". Try and figure out exactly what a startup had to show at the moment a VC chose to invest in them. It could have been that awful hire you made that disrupted the team and you had to let go, but funny enough, that's never the story is it?

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

At Versatile VC , our new VC fund, we’re creating an online community just for founders who are in transition, Founders’ Next Move. Talk with VCs in your space. Many VCs keep a list of ideas they think have high potential. Versatile VC posts publicly our list of startup ideas we want to fund. . Work as a VC Scout.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

She told of the teaching of the Talmud – a book which scholars use to debate doctrine and from which Jewish people are reminded to always learn and to debate. In my experience many VC’s fall into this “I’m expected to know all the answers” trap. Any true disruption will change all the rules.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

VC-backed deals that normally investors wouldn’t have access to; Lyft and Spotify (which we invested in, as well) are two of them.”. If you’re not disrupting yourself someone else will be. “Another aspect of the current market environment I’ve been very actively following is the growth in crowd-sourcing and equity crowd-funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

And yet, managing your professional life as a model, actor, writer or designer remains a mish-mash of emails, manual booking processes and dreaded PDFs. Late last year the Contact platform launched, initially offering models a way to take bookings and manage some aspects of their work. Contact has now raised a $1.9 million (£1.4

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. That little online book company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. What do we like about OpenTable?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I found GroupMe at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. My largest investor was a financial firm that invested in my prior funds to get into the VC business—and in the six years since they first invested, they had built out a team and a strategy that no longer involved doing much seed. I’ve had to start muting libertarian VC Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space. Following a revamp in 2019, Shuttlers now offers a fully functional app that allows mobile professionals on its three plans to book rides.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In 2019, Membere-Otaji finally launched the company with CTO Tobi Amusan after securing a $100,000 pre-seed investment from Oui Capital , a pan-African VC firm. What followed was the launch of MVXtransit, a digital freight booking platform, helping cargo owners find deals on moving containers across Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Before starting his VC firm, Tusk was instrumental in Uber and Bird’s early days, helping the two companies bring their services to new markets in slash-and-burn style. What are the laws on the books? Are you disrupting an entrenched interest? It may be that your thing is completely legal, allowed or somewhere gray.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

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. But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Companies want to build for the pain point you never dreamed to disrupt; VCs want to invest in an emerging trend before it becomes a household name; and those breaking into tech are told to lean into their earnestness, because you never know who is going to answer your cold email. Book your pass ASAP! Smart, and common.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The agenda for TC Disrupt just dropped , and it’s going to be an absolute corker of an event. Then get your tickets and book your flights — it’s gonna be awesome. Startups and VC. Goood [time of day] dear [name]. You know what we’re psyched about? Check out what’s happening on our four (Count ’em! See you there!

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