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The proposal forms around how our organisation can either be completely disrupted by or take full advantage of this massive opportunity that this technology presents. So, our message is, disrupt or be disrupted. StartupGrindStartups Cape Town Disruptive Innovation MORE
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? Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. MORE
Initial Coin Offerings, a fundraising mechanism for companies using cryptocurrencies as a mechanism to buy their service, seem to be upending the world of venture capital. Filecoin raised $250M through an ICO. Tezos raised $232M. Bancor raised $153M. These are massive amounts of money. Recently, I’ve been wondering how prevalent ICOs are and whether they could potentially be a substitute for venture capital. The chart above shows the number and size of ICOs since the beginning of this year. MORE
[Follow Me on Twitter] I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption. Internet Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Android Business Model Disruption Google GPS Mobile Navigation TomTomAfter all, as a venture capitalist it is imperative to understand ways in which a smaller private company can gain the upper hand on a large incumbent. One of the most successful ways to do this is to change [.]. MORE
There has never been a better time to pursue innovation and disruption across the continuum of health services.”. The digital health market is transforming before our eyes. MORE
The post The Up and Coming Startups Aiming to Disrupt Healthcare appeared first on 500 Startups. Healthcare has a notorious reputation for being intimidating. MORE
The post [Lemonade in Forbes] First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business appeared first on OurCrowd. He submitted the video to his renters insurance provider, Lemonade, which paid the $677 claim in two days. Read more here. News Center Newsticker FinTech lemonade newsticker portfolio news MORE
40 Open source is a disruptive distribution strategy. As a result of both the disruptive nature of open source distribution, and the changes in buyer preferences, the number of open source financings has increased nearly monotonically since the genesis of the movement, and it shows no signs of slowing. Open Source Software started the movement in the late 1990s. Since then, open source software has transformed the software industry. MORE
I believe business model innovation is more disruptive than technical innovation. We saw massive disruption as we went from a licensed software business model to an advertising supported business model, which has evolved into an advertising/subscription freemium business model. I’ve shared my views on this before here at AVC. A good example of this was moving from web apps to mobile apps, which was largely a technical innovation. MORE
My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “Top deal maker in Los Angeles… Continue reading on Medium MORE
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The post [The Bouqs in Fast Company] This startup used storytelling to disrupt the $50 billion flower industry appeared first on OurCrowd. Bouqs founder John Tabis tells contributor Mark Miller how frustration—and a love of roses—led to the creation of a farm-to-table flower enterprise. MORE
Mobile’s frequency of use is the reason for its disruptive nature. In 2008, iGoogle represented 20% of traffic to Google. Seven years later, the mobile phone is the home screen of choice for a billion people. iGoogle is dead. Mobile killed it. The typical mobile phone user checks their phone 110 times per day. I suspect iGoogle’s most avid users visited about 10 times daily. By that math, mobile home screens generate an order of magnitude more engagement. MORE
In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. Combining a passion for the right design with a play from the playbook above is key to disrupting a market MORE
But to incite disruption requires a different set of marketing skills. He says, “A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people, who previously lacked the money or skill, now to begin buying and using a product and doing the job for themselves.”. Viewing the SaaS world through this lens, disruption means enabling users to do things for the first time. MORE
Back in October, Techcrunch announced that Dropbox had raised $250mm at a seemingly absurd valuation. Many firms, including my firm Benchmark Capital, participated. When this happened, many people asked us why this was a special company that would cause us to break our standard investment paradigm. They didn’t quite understand why this was a company that deserved [.]. android Apple Internet iphone Mobile Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech cloud dropbox sync synch MORE
On the one hand, I give you a literal Ayn Rand fan (see Paul Carr / PandoDaily''s " Cult Of Disruption ") who believes his service should be allowed to take over the world at speed and will lash out at anyone who suggests otherwise. A multi-pronged disruption. MORE
Our experience tells us that it’s not a question of if this disruption will occur, but when,” says David Brown, founder and co-CEO of Techstars. “We Research shows corporations create coherent partnering and investing strategies with startups. MORE
Why is enterprise disruption completely dominated by companies outside NYC? Have our wings of disruption burned off as we got too close? It seems we should be ripe for huge enterprise disruption. In any case, it's been pretty disappointing that we haven't seen real enterprise/SaaS disruption from NY--because having all of these customers in your backyard would certainly be an advantage Yammer just got sold to Microsoft for over a billion dollars. MORE
But this age of disruption has also created numerous opportunities for hackers and cybercriminals. While innovations are driven by technological disruptions, cybersecurity provides the stability companies need to keep pace. MORE
In the end, if you’re not developing a deep bench of talented professionals who keep you on your toes, you’re bound to be disrupted. But we all believe deeply in the need to evolve, challenge ourselves and willing to even let ourselves be disrupted from within. MORE
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. Even the traditional IPO market is being disrupted by equity crowdfunding, which was just enabled under Title II of the JOBS Act. MORE
Many industries that aren’t top of mind for most of us but serve our most basic everyday needs – from industrial production, transportation infrastructure and environmental services and safety – all are facing technological disruption and innovation. MORE
In SaaS, machine learning has become an essential component to many different products. Whether it’s automating responses to inbound sales queries, identifying expense reports for audit, or surfacing anomalies in data, machine learning improves workflow software. To date, most software imbued with machine learning reduces costs rather than increase revenues. Why is this the case? Because machine learning is focused on efficiency gains. MORE
We expect healthcare to change in the next decade as disruptive technologies promise to improve patient outcomes, making medicine more personalized, effective, and interconnected. The post Your body, disrupted appeared first on OurCrowd. MORE
This article covers the biggest disruptions in the global innovation landscape, the UBI Global member programs […]. MORE
Which are the ripest areas for startups to disrupt using machine learning? At the core, machine learning/artificial intelligence relies on two key ingredients: advanced algorithms and data sets to train those algorithms. Novel algorithms are increasingly making their way into the public domain in the form of open-source libraries. So, the key differentiator for startups and ultimately long-term competitive advantage is access to proprietary data sets. MORE
Techstars Studio Will Create Disruptive New Startups and Help Large Corporations Innovate. Want to rapidly envision, validate, and prototype disruptive new startups? January 16, 2019 — BOULDER, Colo. MORE
It’s a classic “innovator’s dilemma,” making this market ripe for disruption. I’ve looked at many companies trying to disrupt this market and I’ve seen very interesting solutions and feel certain one or a few will stick and become big. Rental cars. MORE
Last night, I went to go see Dallas Buyers Club. It''s a very powerful movie. Whether it''s accurate or not, is debatable , but it''s theme is something that resonated with me. We, as a society, put in place structures like government and big corporations largely as an organizational efficiency. By pooling our resources and centralizing control, theoretically, we can more effectively do things like police neighborhoods, manufacture things and defend our borders. MORE
There have been more and more news stories about entrepreneurship—celebrating disruptive technologies, industry-changing innovation, unicorns, acquisitions, IPOs, and the success stories of high-profile founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs. MORE
The post [DailyPay in Bloomberg Law] ‘Early Wage’ Apps Aim to Disrupt Payday Loans, Two-Week Cycle appeared first on OurCrowd. Early pay providers operate under two models. MORE
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Disruption” is a word that gets tossed around business a lot these days. But what if we could disrupt not just the way we do business, but the fate of our species and our planet? We asked ourselves: What can TNC do to help advance technology and disruption in conservation?”. MORE
I’ve come to think that at the heart of every disruptive technology startup is Simpson’s paradox. Identifying and leveraging that change to win market share is the key to disruption. MORE
“Eastern Pacific Shipping is one of the top global players in the merchant maritime space with a clear innovation-driven agenda that’s poised to disrupt the industry,” says Will Robinson, VP of Asia-Pacific Sales. MORE
Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. Neither Taleb nor Christensen maintains a list of the industries or companies likely to be disrupted, for example. Disruption will happen in certain sectors and long-incumbent technologies will continue to prevail in others. MORE
A three-way tie-up is set to disrupt Belgian basketball viewership, with global sports data firm Sportradar partnering with video analytics firm PlaySight and the EuroMillions Basketball League (EMBL), Belgium’s highest level of professional basketball. MORE
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What do you get when you combine 7 panelist plus one moderator on to a stage for 30 minutes to talk about a serious topic? Answer: Not much. And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. It’s a shame. MORE
A little more than a year ago, I got a note from Brian Fitzgerald, a Product Manager I met while I was at First Round. He was "taking time with family" to figure out what's next. MORE
He has many initiatives to finance progress: the Thiel fellows programs, his numerous investment vehicles and working with his colleagues from PayPal who have built SpaceX, Telsa, Yammer, LinkedIn and other disruptive companies. Peter Thiel and Gary Kasparov wrote in the Financial Times about “Our dangerous illusion of tech progress”. The main point of the article is quoted below: [We are living in an era of] cautiousness far too satisfied with incremental improvements. MORE
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. MORE
In addition, the company hired a handful of young bloggers to incorporate a disruptive medium into their product. By plunging the company into the new form of media, understanding the industry changes, and becoming agents of change themselves, the Timesmen were able to save the business during a great crisis, avoiding irrelevance and disruption by embracing innovation. MORE
disruption Related Topics TechStars
APRIL 18, 2019
Disruption” is a word that gets tossed around business a lot these days. But what if we could disrupt not just the way we do business, but the fate of our species and our planet? We asked ourselves: What can TNC do to help advance technology and disruption in conservation?”.
TechStars
APRIL 25, 2019
Many industries that aren’t top of mind for most of us but serve our most basic everyday needs – from industrial production, transportation infrastructure and environmental services and safety – all are facing technological disruption and innovation.
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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. The post Your body, disrupted appeared first on OurCrowd.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 6, 2015
It’s a classic “innovator’s dilemma,” making this market ripe for disruption. I’ve looked at many companies trying to disrupt this market and I’ve seen very interesting solutions and feel certain one or a few will stick and become big. Rental cars.
Dream It
OCTOBER 9, 2019
But this age of disruption has also created numerous opportunities for hackers and cybercriminals. While innovations are driven by technological disruptions, cybersecurity provides the stability companies need to keep pace.
500
AUGUST 6, 2019
The post The Up and Coming Startups Aiming to Disrupt Healthcare appeared first on 500 Startups. Healthcare has a notorious reputation for being intimidating.
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.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 14, 2015
A little more than a year ago, I got a note from Brian Fitzgerald, a Product Manager I met while I was at First Round. He was "taking time with family" to figure out what's next.
Fred Destin
JANUARY 27, 2014
On the one hand, I give you a literal Ayn Rand fan (see Paul Carr / PandoDaily''s " Cult Of Disruption ") who believes his service should be allowed to take over the world at speed and will lash out at anyone who suggests otherwise. A multi-pronged disruption.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
What do you get when you combine 7 panelist plus one moderator on to a stage for 30 minutes to talk about a serious topic? Answer: Not much. And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. It’s a shame.
Startup Grind
AUGUST 20, 2018
The proposal forms around how our organisation can either be completely disrupted by or take full advantage of this massive opportunity that this technology presents. So, our message is, disrupt or be disrupted. StartupGrindStartups Cape Town Disruptive Innovation
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 16, 2013
Last night, I went to go see Dallas Buyers Club. It''s a very powerful movie. Whether it''s accurate or not, is debatable , but it''s theme is something that resonated with me. We, as a society, put in place structures like government and big corporations largely as an organizational efficiency. By pooling our resources and centralizing control, theoretically, we can more effectively do things like police neighborhoods, manufacture things and defend our borders.
TechStars
APRIL 23, 2019
There has never been a better time to pursue innovation and disruption across the continuum of health services.”. The digital health market is transforming before our eyes.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 15, 2015
Open source is a disruptive distribution strategy. As a result of both the disruptive nature of open source distribution, and the changes in buyer preferences, the number of open source financings has increased nearly monotonically since the genesis of the movement, and it shows no signs of slowing. Open Source Software started the movement in the late 1990s. Since then, open source software has transformed the software industry.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 17, 2016
But to incite disruption requires a different set of marketing skills. He says, “A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people, who previously lacked the money or skill, now to begin buying and using a product and doing the job for themselves.”. Viewing the SaaS world through this lens, disruption means enabling users to do things for the first time.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
In addition, the company hired a handful of young bloggers to incorporate a disruptive medium into their product. By plunging the company into the new form of media, understanding the industry changes, and becoming agents of change themselves, the Timesmen were able to save the business during a great crisis, avoiding irrelevance and disruption by embracing innovation.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 9, 2016
Which are the ripest areas for startups to disrupt using machine learning? At the core, machine learning/artificial intelligence relies on two key ingredients: advanced algorithms and data sets to train those algorithms. Novel algorithms are increasingly making their way into the public domain in the form of open-source libraries. So, the key differentiator for startups and ultimately long-term competitive advantage is access to proprietary data sets.
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. Even the traditional IPO market is being disrupted by equity crowdfunding, which was just enabled under Title II of the JOBS Act.
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 27, 2019
The post [The Bouqs in Fast Company] This startup used storytelling to disrupt the $50 billion flower industry appeared first on OurCrowd. Bouqs founder John Tabis tells contributor Mark Miller how frustration—and a love of roses—led to the creation of a farm-to-table flower enterprise.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
Back in October, Techcrunch announced that Dropbox had raised $250mm at a seemingly absurd valuation. Many firms, including my firm Benchmark Capital, participated. When this happened, many people asked us why this was a special company that would cause us to break our standard investment paradigm. They didn’t quite understand why this was a company that deserved [.]. android Apple Internet iphone Mobile Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech cloud dropbox sync synch
Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 2, 2012
In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. Combining a passion for the right design with a play from the playbook above is key to disrupting a market
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
He has many initiatives to finance progress: the Thiel fellows programs, his numerous investment vehicles and working with his colleagues from PayPal who have built SpaceX, Telsa, Yammer, LinkedIn and other disruptive companies. Peter Thiel and Gary Kasparov wrote in the Financial Times about “Our dangerous illusion of tech progress”. The main point of the article is quoted below: [We are living in an era of] cautiousness far too satisfied with incremental improvements.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 10, 2016
My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “Top deal maker in Los Angeles… Continue reading on Medium
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 22, 2014
Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. Neither Taleb nor Christensen maintains a list of the industries or companies likely to be disrupted, for example. Disruption will happen in certain sectors and long-incumbent technologies will continue to prevail in others.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 18, 2012
Why is enterprise disruption completely dominated by companies outside NYC? Have our wings of disruption burned off as we got too close? It seems we should be ripe for huge enterprise disruption. In any case, it's been pretty disappointing that we haven't seen real enterprise/SaaS disruption from NY--because having all of these customers in your backyard would certainly be an advantage Yammer just got sold to Microsoft for over a billion dollars.
OurCrowd
JULY 11, 2019
A three-way tie-up is set to disrupt Belgian basketball viewership, with global sports data firm Sportradar partnering with video analytics firm PlaySight and the EuroMillions Basketball League (EMBL), Belgium’s highest level of professional basketball.
OurCrowd
AUGUST 1, 2019
The post [DailyPay in Bloomberg Law] ‘Early Wage’ Apps Aim to Disrupt Payday Loans, Two-Week Cycle appeared first on OurCrowd. Early pay providers operate under two models.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 30, 2009
[Follow Me on Twitter] I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption. Internet Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Android Business Model Disruption Google GPS Mobile Navigation TomTomAfter all, as a venture capitalist it is imperative to understand ways in which a smaller private company can gain the upper hand on a large incumbent. One of the most successful ways to do this is to change [.].
UBI Global
DECEMBER 16, 2019
This article covers the biggest disruptions in the global innovation landscape, the UBI Global member programs […].
OurCrowd
MAY 2, 2019
The post [Lemonade in Forbes] First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business appeared first on OurCrowd. He submitted the video to his renters insurance provider, Lemonade, which paid the $677 claim in two days. Read more here. News Center Newsticker FinTech lemonade newsticker portfolio news
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 4, 2017
Initial Coin Offerings, a fundraising mechanism for companies using cryptocurrencies as a mechanism to buy their service, seem to be upending the world of venture capital. Filecoin raised $250M through an ICO. Tezos raised $232M. Bancor raised $153M. These are massive amounts of money. Recently, I’ve been wondering how prevalent ICOs are and whether they could potentially be a substitute for venture capital. The chart above shows the number and size of ICOs since the beginning of this year.
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? Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups.
Co Starters
DECEMBER 13, 2019
There have been more and more news stories about entrepreneurship—celebrating disruptive technologies, industry-changing innovation, unicorns, acquisitions, IPOs, and the success stories of high-profile founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 25, 2018
In SaaS, machine learning has become an essential component to many different products. Whether it’s automating responses to inbound sales queries, identifying expense reports for audit, or surfacing anomalies in data, machine learning improves workflow software. To date, most software imbued with machine learning reduces costs rather than increase revenues. Why is this the case? Because machine learning is focused on efficiency gains.
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 3, 2013
Mobile’s frequency of use is the reason for its disruptive nature. In 2008, iGoogle represented 20% of traffic to Google. Seven years later, the mobile phone is the home screen of choice for a billion people. iGoogle is dead. Mobile killed it. The typical mobile phone user checks their phone 110 times per day. I suspect iGoogle’s most avid users visited about 10 times daily. By that math, mobile home screens generate an order of magnitude more engagement.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
I’ve come to think that at the heart of every disruptive technology startup is Simpson’s paradox. Identifying and leveraging that change to win market share is the key to disruption.
TechStars
APRIL 17, 2019
Our experience tells us that it’s not a question of if this disruption will occur, but when,” says David Brown, founder and co-CEO of Techstars. “We Research shows corporations create coherent partnering and investing strategies with startups.
TechStars
JANUARY 31, 2019
“Eastern Pacific Shipping is one of the top global players in the merchant maritime space with a clear innovation-driven agenda that’s poised to disrupt the industry,” says Will Robinson, VP of Asia-Pacific Sales.
TechStars
JANUARY 16, 2019
Techstars Studio Will Create Disruptive New Startups and Help Large Corporations Innovate. Want to rapidly envision, validate, and prototype disruptive new startups? January 16, 2019 — BOULDER, Colo.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 8, 2019
I believe business model innovation is more disruptive than technical innovation. We saw massive disruption as we went from a licensed software business model to an advertising supported business model, which has evolved into an advertising/subscription freemium business model. I’ve shared my views on this before here at AVC. A good example of this was moving from web apps to mobile apps, which was largely a technical innovation.
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