Venture Well

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Our experts offer five tips to help early-stage startups manage global supply chain disruptions. The post 5 Strategies for Startups Navigating an Uncertain Supply Chain appeared first on VentureWell.

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Dream It

AUGUST 10, 2020

Red Flag #1: Trendy Buzzwords Red Flag #2: Superlative Overuse Red Flag #3: Words that shall not be spoken Red Flag #1: Buzzword Bingo Founders often throw around words like “disrupt”, “revolutionize” and other trendy buzzwords in their pitch. Consider, many customers don’t actually want to be “disrupted”.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At The post Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab hosts Global Demo Day of Disruptive Startups appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

Climate change will turn all our legacy industries on their heads, which screams opportunity for new business models and approaches.”  — Ryan Levinson In other words, disruption is coming whether we like it or not; the smart money is already stepping up. “We We have a huge, urgent challenge, which means there’s a huge opportunity.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself. Was this episode from five years ago?

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

Not yet, because it seems like the NYC government picks and chooses which startups it wants to go after depending on which lobby being disrupted complains the most. Given that kind of environment, what's the likelihood that the next Uber or Airbnb will want to set up shop in New York City?

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

an industry I deemed “ ripe for disruption ”?—?in But we believed in the founders, Jonathan Neman, Nicolas Jammet, and Nathaniel Ru, and their vision of a healthier way to eat. What did we see in the then-regional salad company? Its potential to transform fast food?—?an in the same way Starbucks transformed coffee.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Revolutions mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that upend age-old industries, with a unique focus on startups based outside of the coastal tech hubs. Based in Washington, D.C.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Primarily, there are three levels of innovation: incremental, sustaining and disruptive. Disruptive innovation is what most people mean when they say innovation. The opportunities for disruption often don’t just hurt your business but disrupt the market on the whole with a completely new product service.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2013

Despite everything it theoretically knows about me, Facebook ad units disrupt my feed. It provides me the least amount of critical and impactful value--and it feels like, compared to a year ago, it provides less and less value because of its efforts to monetize. They are glaringly in the way, lowering the quality of the signal even further.

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500

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. The following is an excerpt from 500’s CVC report. How has corporate venture capital changed?

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has affected nearly every industry globally.

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Revolution

MARCH 10, 2025

Years of offshoring, bottlenecks, and climate-driven disruptions have made it clear: we need to rethink where and how we source materials. Now, as we double down on our investment, we know that this model isnt just a clever ideaits a necessary reimagining of American supplychains. Wood is a perfect example.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

I’m convinced WeWork is part of a sea change in how business think about real estate, and from great disruption comes great economic opportunity. How big these winners will be is not a game I’m in.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. But the bigger truth is the competition is important. When we funded Sam , Rahul and team at MakeSpace > 2.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In March 2020 when the pandemic hit and the US shut down, the events industry was completely disrupted. The disruption impacted my business negatively in a significant way. The entire industry ground to a halt. In my company, projects left and right were being cancelled or put on hold indefinitely.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2022

A few years ago, I was at Techcrunch Disrupt and this guy taps me on the shoulder as I was chatting in a group. He simply extended a handshake and said: “Hi, sorry to interrupt. My name is Alan. My company is Bread and we make ad creative super easy.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Innovation continues to disrupt older industries, create opportunities, and create new streams of revenue. The later stage guys would just have to wait longer for the company to grow into its valuation. If you''re a long term investor, you''ll realize that the market for new technology continues to grow.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Invite participation through disruptive activations. Do something disruptive and leverage TikTok’s participatory nature to create a true cultural moment for your brand. You’ll want to design a challenge concept that tees up virality, and music that perfectly coordinates (second-by-second). Interested in standing out from the pack?

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500

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We’ve recently partnered with LA Fund, an innovative hospitality-focused venture fund, to launch a bootcamp for startups building products that have the potential to disrupt this space. One which you may not have heard much about is HTaaS — or Hospitality Tech as a Service.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

The ones above are the ones I’ve prioritized this year (other than Disrupt – I never seem to get invited to that one). Angels have been prolific for years now and they, too, rely on downstream money to cover their bets. And we live in public so many people are able just to reach out. And there’s conferences. Web Summit.

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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. When you’re trying to disrupt an established category: Go outside of your business to search for inspiration and ideas. I wanted to reset, disrupt, create something that helped people.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2023

It has already started disrupting many industries, most notably education and computer programming. But having now played with ChatGPT for several months and read about all the different applications to date, I believe that the generative AI powering it will be one of the most disruptive forces of my lifetime.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

With private markets capturing more value in the future and continued disruption of every industry – can LPs afford NOT to be long in Venture Capital? to raise “opportunity funds” to fund the prorata participation of their best early-stage investments.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That being said, we have seen many examples of large companies that get disrupted by smaller, scrappier startups. What general advice do you have for entrepreneurs looking to compete with larger competitors in the marketplace? Taking on bigger (and better funded) competitors is not easy. Many paths to successful startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

And the giant gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete. And what prompted this lawsuit?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 1, 2025

Figma’s collaborative design tool platform disrupted the design market long-dominated by Adobe. Yesterday, Figma filed its beautifully designed S-1. It reveals a product-led growth (PLG) business with a remarkable trajectory. Non-GAAP Op Margin 17.0% Sales Efficiency 1.00 Adjusted FCF Margin 1 24.2%

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

If it takes compulsive individuals to be at the absolute peek in sports or music – why wouldn’t it take the same to create a disruptive product or service that can change an industry. I know it sounds cliché. But I would ask you this. It’s not a 9-to-5 job. It’s not for people with soft elbows or compressed egos.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

We have no doubt that the storage market is being disrupted and that each city is lined with what will look like ex Blockbuster Video locations one day or frankly be converted to more productive / high value use since many of them are urban. That’s some of what I suspect that team at 8VC saw in MakeSpace.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

S amsung Ventures has a track record of investing in innovative technologies with the potential to disrupt industries. In the workplace, businesses could leverage this technology to optimize productivity and identify potential cognitive impairments before they affect job performance, reducing accidents and errors.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 6, 2025

Investor Confidence in David’s Market Disruption Both Greenoaks and Valor Equity Partners expressed strong confidence in David’s potential to reshape the health food market. Consumers have long faced a tradeoff between convenience, taste, and nutrition,” said Neil Shah, partner at Greenoaks.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 6, 2015

I''m probably biased against just out of school hackers who think that just because they built a thing, they''re going to disrupt an industry they don''t care about understanding. We all have biases--and not all bias is bad. Am I wrong to have that? Do I want to change that?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 22, 2020

You have to go back to the Depression and World War II to find a disruption of this magnitude—and that shaped an entire generation. This will definitely be a generation shaping event—one in which we’re going to undergo a lot of pain and difficulty, but ultimately, for the better.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

How did the pandemic disrupt your company, and what pivot did you make in response? Our classes gained quick popularity as peoples’ lives were disrupted and routines turned upside down. The Table Less Traveled operated international, boutique tours emphasizing building local relationships through food experiences.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If you keep an open mind about areas in need of disruption, there are serious returns to be made--and you're likely to get exposed to entrepreneurs who don't look like the base of entrepreneurs already getting funded.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

Expect a disruption of normal terms (expect to get paid slower, but you may have to pay faster). During economic disruption, customers will take longer to pay and vendors will need to be paid faster. . • In a crisis, you must have a keen understanding of when profit turns to cash.

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