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How I learned to change the oil in my car and found a new office because of Shake Shack and a hackathon

This is going to be BIG.

In turn, I wound up inviting her to a 300 person event that I threw at the Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. More detail from Tarikh below.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

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When I worked at Salesforce we had “city tours” in which a senior exec on our team would fly to a city in America (eventually globally) and host an event with customers and prospects. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. somebody he knew from afar?

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Ripe For Disruption: The Asset Management Business

David Teten VC

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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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

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I presented the deck below – which was prepared with the great help of Upfront Venture’s Principal Jordan Hudson – at Dave McClure’s must attend event called PreMoney with much more data and narrative than I had in my blog post. I saved it mostly for LP discussions that I had over the past year.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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It will enable the naturally creative but geographically and socially disenfranchised to make money doing what they love – participating. One idea I’ve been searching for is a platform that enables the creation of serialized programs with audience participation. Online Events. billion views.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. The ability to interact, transact and disrupt is an order of magnitude greater at broadband speeds than at 56k dial-up modem speeds. THAT is disruption. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Disrupt 2023 — we’re shipping a big new release

TechCrunch

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? That’s certainly true for the Builder Stage.