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. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Tech giants started with small problems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and reimagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth — new stages, new content, and new opportunities. Oh, and if you were laid off recently, we are offering a free Expo+ pass to TC Disrupt 2023.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

If you’re a startup and you haven’t read my summary of Clay Christensen’s seminal work please do. In the simplest form, new startups have a product that is INFERIOR to that offered by the competition but at a dramatically lower price with the seller opting for a very thin margin on their product. Why Deflationary Business Win.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. As the Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN) researched last year, the early signs of studio data are just the beginning for the growing expectations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In 2014, they pitched MicroBlink at TechCrunch Disrupt in London. Photomath has now attracted over 220 million downloads. Other companies tried to build competitors, but it seems like they didn’t manage to crush the tiny European startup. It planned to sell its core technology to other companies that might find it useful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2020

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. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. The ambiguity and uncertainty of the startup world fuels their ambition. Key takeaways.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The company competed against knowRX Health and Vertikal X on today’s TechCrunch Live episode and won free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt this October. The company says it has more than 80,000 downloads, 15,000 registered users and over 1,000 families paying for the subscription. million in pre-seed funding rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

Startups in a world of massive markets can be confusing. Or app companies that went viral due to spammy friend requests to download in an app store only to have a community backlash and subsequent crash. They are most susceptible to being disrupted by better versions. Startup Lessons' Success for many is ephemeral.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

As podcasting continues to gain ground among mainstream consumers as a digital media platform alongside music, video, and the printed word, a startup that made a name for itself through building content for the medium has closed a round of funding to help it explore what comes next. Maybe in-car calls need to be disrupted soon, too).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm. The startup says it delivers the item to customers within 12 hours of harvesting.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Engagement and education feel aggressively at odds, which limits the way that startups can scale and succeed. Discover how Duolingo started with CEO Luis von Ahn at Disrupt 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Downloads of the app jumped 10x after the AI news broke since Microsoft promises priority access to the new Bing to those who have it installed. Africa’s startup ecosystem: Last year saw record investments in African startups. The hope, say the folks in Redmond, is that the integration will help Bing better compete with Google.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

French startup Voodoo has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in blockchain-powered mobile games. Voodoo is currently best known for its hyper-casual games, with 5 billion downloads and 300 million monthly active users. Blockchain will especially disrupt gaming, as players are already used to buying digital assets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly. If you’re going to slap AI/ML on a deck, it had better be because leaning on new technologies gives you a real, measurable advantage for your startup, not because it is the newest, hottest thing. Lemme put my little soapbox away and look at what else has been alive in the land of startups this week!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Startups and VC. Know when to walk away, know when to run : The only failure is failing to learn, and on the newest episode of TC’s Equity podcast, the team discusses how failure is a choose-your-own-adventure for startups. ” (TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Evidently, the downturn hasn’t soured investors on the travel industry. billion this year. Hopper differentiates itself from rival travel services (e.g.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. The startup is already piloting elements of this, he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The startup plans to deploy over $330 million to repay its debt. The startup — which counts SoftBank, Airbnb, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital India and Microsoft among its investors and was most recently valued at $9.6 Much like every other hospitality and travel firm, Oyo was also severely disrupted by the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Now, cybersecurity startup Nudge Security is emerging from stealth to help organizations tackle what they think is the biggest cybersecurity weakness: people. For example, if an employee downloads Dropbox but the organization uses Google Drive, Nudge will start a dialogue to understand why that decision has been made. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Vega , a startup that is building a decentralized protocol for creating and trading on derivatives markets, has raised $5 million in funding. The startup launched its ‘t estnet’ (a testing version of its network, as the name implies) in the second quarter of 2020 and has had a number of iterations since.

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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. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Tech giants started with small problems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While there have been quite a few attempts to disrupt search engines, Rewind may be the first I’ve ever seen try to revamp the way we search through our online lives. The startup, launching today, uses nifty tech to record how someone scrolls and chats through their day. One app at a time.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

He also covered how “traditional media companies” think about the future and how they view disruption. download from iTunes for free) or just skipping to the bits you like. 45 minutes in: Andrew’s process for investing in startups. 45:15 What’s your process for investing in startups? Watch: [link].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

London-based femtech, Hormona , which is pitching its hormone tracker in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, hopes to encourage people with periods to do just that: Add hormone-monitoring to their quantified health mix. ” The startup has raised a total of $1.5 The 2019-founded U.K. That’s for starters.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

In the interview below, he explains why and how startups should work on this from their very early days. We asked him to expand on some of his thoughts and recommendations for startup founders. Broadly speaking, any startup is competing on innovation or messaging, and, ideally, on both. Can you explain this concept?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The company, based on an open-source project that already has 5 million downloads and 8,000 websites using the service (and hundreds of paying customers, according to the company), is a variation on the browser fingerprinting technology that companies have been using for years. WTF is GDPR? Pinto is undeterred. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Now, banking on the idea that both professional developers and more casual enthusiasts are going to want to build even more mobile games in the future, an Israeli startup called Kooply is announcing funding from key investors to build out a mobile games development platform. For now investors are intrigued enough to punt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

A conversation that I’ve been having over the last week is that startups are finally investing in community in a meaningful way, dedicating actual budgets to community instead of simply stealing a few dollars away from the sales and marketing team. 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The California-based company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, is designed for Latinos and offers in-culture financial content, products and experiences to help them gain control of their economic power and build wealth. Beatriz Acevedo, co-founder and CEO of Suma Wealth (Image credit: Suma Wealth).

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Register Le Yen Thanh, the 28-year-old CEO of Vietnam’s smart mobility startup Phenikaa Maas , is among the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honorees in the Industry, Manufacturing & Energy category. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 23, 2021

The documentary, “ Disrupting Wine ,” about his entrepreneurial journey. To learn more, visit Vivino’s official website and check out Zachariassen’s YouTube series, “ Raw Startup.”. website, or download the app, available for iOs and Android. How he took a great idea and turned it into a great business. What’s next for Drum.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

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. You can watch on YouTube or download the podcast (for the gym!) And so they never got consumer adoption. or video podcast.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. As such, Campbell said her startup plans to launch these kits in fall 2021, partnering with several universities for a beta rollout. Leda Health outsources most of the tricky Ethereum software support to the blockchain startup Deqode. We might be followed,” Campbell said. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The startup, also a B corp, is prioritizing profit alongside the environment and social dynamics. The startup is trying to rewrite the rules of auto insurance by using two key metrics to track, create and charge insurance rates: state of roads and driver behavior. based auto insurance startup last valued at $130 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A new startup wants to help online media outlets make money by making it easier for consumers to access paywalled content without being locked in to multiple subscriptions. Demoing as part of the Battlefield 200 cohort at TC Disrupt this week, Zette is trying to achieve something that others before have tried. So, how does it all work?

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