TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

The executive has a background in strategy and management consulting that progressed into a career in product development for top tech companies like Google and Amazon. To date, the company has raised almost $1 billion to scale its platform, which connects the fragmented network of shippers, carriers and brokers across the United States.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

The resulting herd mentality hurts innovation and leads to suboptimal returns. We wrote the first version of this research with Brent Beardsley , formerly a Partner with Boston Consulting Group. This study would not have been possible without the collaboration and support of Brent Beardsley and the Boston Consulting Group.

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OurCrowd

JULY 24, 2019

We expect healthcare to change in the next decade as disruptive technologies promise to improve patient outcomes, making medicine more personalized, effective, and interconnected. Our understanding of the incredibly complex brain is rapidly improving with innovations like elminda’s BNA technology. The Path to Personal Care: Genetics.

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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. What are some techniques for innovating around these challenges?

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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. They had gone accustomed to the same tried and tired MBA playbooks and strategy consultant decks. The result?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Grant Easterbrook Contributor Share on Twitter Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam. First, these startups were unable to overcome the difficulty of building a two-sided network for a product with a slow sales cycle. He also co-founded Dream Forward, which was acquired in 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. These complementary pillars leverage Impact Hub’s extensive network of over 100 communities across the globe to accelerate learning across diverse realities.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? These closed periods have more to do with trends in other markets or macro fears than they have anything to do with prospects for innovation. Perhaps I need to rethink that.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 11, 2023

To understand the value of business consulting for startups, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their insights. From understanding the bigger picture to breaking free from constraints, discover the top 14 benefits of business consulting for startups, as shared by these experienced professionals.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of social media and technology, customer feedback increasingly becomes your compass, guiding you towards innovation and sustainable growth. Lead generation, consulting on the phone, following up with emails within the same day—all of it matters. Find a seat at the table and maintain your humility.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 18, 2019

After graduation, both accepted jobs in New York City — Yash in private equity and Puneet in healthcare consulting. Healthcare and life science require disruption,” said Yash, “something that creates better treatment practices, or something that makes the costs go down.”. Every person has helped us. We are welcoming.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Even an extraordinary engineer or product lead who have built a breakthrough product aren’t guaranteed success unless they can get access to capital, get much needed press to drive low-cost customer acquisition and persuade fickle business leaders to join their company and help them shape their businesses beyond tech innovation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The truth is, the way in which tech companies hire has been relatively untouched by disruption, with most still relying on resumes and conversational interviews for its highest-stake decisions. This is not helped by natural overreliance on networks as means to fill hiring pipelines in early-stage company building.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I’ve got to go consult documentation or ask another engineer who might be busy with something,” being able to get yourself unblocked in the moment before you’re out of flow state is extraordinarily valuable. Kevin: I think those are 2 very different questions and I’ll dig into them separately.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

You’ll also often hear companies that started in coworking spaces praise the networking benefits of being in a shared space — team collaboration, events and close contact with people in other companies helps startups connect and grow. SpaceLab Detroit. Tech Brewery Ann Arbor.

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Startup Catalyst

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Matthew Brown (2015) left a role at one of the big 4 consulting firms to join Maxwell Plus , a medical tech startup rethinking the way we detect and diagnose disease (and are doing pretty well ). Jackson Grant (2017) founded Clevver Cup and is now working as CUA’s Innovation Co-ordinator while finishing his studies.

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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. One of the most interesting things about your approach is that it doesn’t outsource the thinking work to external consultants or experts.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 9, 2021

By combining various areas of expertise, joint action between different actors has the power to advance innovation and develop new solutions. Entrepreneurship, training and innovation. This partnership involves the Impact Hub Network and ALDA (European Association for Local Democracy). Responsible food and consumption.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

In 2020, Israeli media reported that Iranian hackers had infiltrated the computer network of six facilities controlling Israel’s water systems and disabled a sensor that detects chlorine levels. Eli Cymbalista, CEO of Environmental Sustainability Innovation Lab. Register Now. IXDen: Securing water and more against hackers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

“While all startups are certainly not focused on being disruptive, they often rely on cutting-edge technology and processes to give their customers something truly new,” Zeile writes. Few people are more closely tapped into the innovations in the transportation space than investors. Image Credits: TechCrunch. EDT/noon PDT.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

DreaMed & Airobotics: Medical innovation on the ground and in the air. DreaMed & Airobotics: Medical innovation on the ground and in the air Clalit Health Services received a $3.5M Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved. INSIGHTEC: UK NHS approves funding for focused ultrasound treatment.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

DreaMed & Airobotics: Medical innovation on the ground and in the air. DreaMed & Airobotics: Medical innovation on the ground and in the air Clalit Health Services received a $3.5M Your portfolio gets stronger when the OurCrowd network gets involved. INSIGHTEC: UK NHS approves funding for focused ultrasound treatment.

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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). Venture Partners may also consult with companies directly or serve on boards, in which case we’ll expedite their being compensated directly by the relevant company. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Consulting. Marco Franzoni, Managing Partner, Disruptive Labs , observes: “If you are an early stage founder looking to build a product or scale faster, Venture Studios can be a great option. Consulting. The simplest way to earn some income while you research your next move is to do some part-time consulting.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

In this chat with a16z General Partner David Ulevitch from the second American Dynamism Summit , he discusses the importance of entrepreneurship for maintaining America’s status as the most innovative place on the planet. We also have a retail network we’re building right now. Here is a transcript of their conversation.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Top Detroit startup Guardhat raised nearly $42 million in funding in early 2021 to create innovative safety solutions for industrial IoT. PlainSight is a new networking app. It’s a unique take on the networking problem we all face finding the right partners at events and in business. Apply now to Trustpage. PlainSight.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Nowhere is this truer than in the IT security industry, especially in the aftermath of 2014’s endless string of high-profile network security breaches at the tech security company, Blue Coat, for example. But with genuinely disruptive products and services, early adoption will pay dividends. You have your financial ducks in a row.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

We have a Nordic investment mandate, but we primarily focus on Norway as we are a Norwegian pre-seed/seed fund and have our competitive insight, network and brand here in Norway. We have a decade behind us of incremental innovations. Leading support and growth financing initiatives: Innovation Norway, funds, etc. More than 50%?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

Joe Reilly , CEO of Circulus Group and a longtime contributor to Family Wealth Report , interviewed me to share views on disruption in asset management, my research into the field, and where the industry needs to be headed. Reilly: What do you find is most disruptive in the industry right now? What prompted you to explore this space?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Numerous thoughtful people are worried about how technological disruption will destroy jobs. The classical economist response is that technological disruption also creates new jobs, e.g., “video game designer”. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments.

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