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Speaking to The Jerusalem Post ahead of addressing the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference on Monday, former Amazon manager Ackerman said he believes the same disruption will also provide “rampant opportunities” for innovators in Israel. MORE
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
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. 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 key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? in the New Yorker. It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove. If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. MORE
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
The post Startup Discovery: Disruption in Climate Change appeared first on UBI Global. MORE
The post [Airobotics in Disruptive Asia] Singaporeans beware – drones might be checking your social distancing appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. 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
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
Koch Disruptive Technologies has announced an investment in Sight Diagnostics alongside global crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. Sight Diagnostics is a long time portfolio company of OurCrowd. The Series D funding raised a solid $71 million. Total funding now tops $124 million. MORE
Disrupt. In fact, Marc Andreessen once tweeted: "To be AGAINST disruption is to be AGAINST consumer choice, AGAINST more people bring served, and AGAINST shrinking inequality." The latter is financial engineering masking itself as disruption. 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
Have a 800 pound gorilla you're trying to disrupt? But here's a tip: Don't talk about disrupting them. The first rule of disruption is: You do not talk about disruption. OK, so when should you talk about this awesome disrupting you're doing? not "we are disrupting". 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
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
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
On June 25, I’m speaking to the Stamford Fintech Meetup on “Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted” This is based on my Institutional Investor cover story: “ Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted ”, cowritten with Katina Stefanova (CEO/CIO, Marto Capital; former management committee at Bridgewater Associates) and Brent Beardsley (head of Strategy, Vanguard). 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
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
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
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?”.
UBI Global
APRIL 8, 2020
The post Startup Discovery: Disruption in Climate Change appeared first on UBI Global.
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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.
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.
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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.
Tomasz Tunguz
JANUARY 26, 2020
The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? in the New Yorker. It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove. If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above.
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.
David Teten - VC
JUNE 8, 2020
On June 25, I’m speaking to the Stamford Fintech Meetup on “Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted” This is based on my Institutional Investor cover story: “ Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted ”, cowritten with Katina Stefanova (CEO/CIO, Marto Capital; former management committee at Bridgewater Associates) and Brent Beardsley (head of Strategy, Vanguard).
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.
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This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 1, 2020
Disrupt. In fact, Marc Andreessen once tweeted: "To be AGAINST disruption is to be AGAINST consumer choice, AGAINST more people bring served, and AGAINST shrinking inequality." The latter is financial engineering masking itself as disruption.
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.
OnStartups
DECEMBER 22, 2015
Have a 800 pound gorilla you're trying to disrupt? But here's a tip: Don't talk about disrupting them. The first rule of disruption is: You do not talk about disruption. OK, so when should you talk about this awesome disrupting you're doing? not "we are disrupting".
OurCrowd
JUNE 18, 2020
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post ahead of addressing the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference on Monday, former Amazon manager Ackerman said he believes the same disruption will also provide “rampant opportunities” for innovators in Israel.
OurCrowd
AUGUST 5, 2020
Koch Disruptive Technologies has announced an investment in Sight Diagnostics alongside global crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. Sight Diagnostics is a long time portfolio company of OurCrowd. The Series D funding raised a solid $71 million. Total funding now tops $124 million.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
AUGUST 6, 2020
The post [Airobotics in Disruptive Asia] Singaporeans beware – drones might be checking your social distancing appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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.
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 [.].
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.
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.
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.
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