Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. Market Opportunity. But what about markets? I call it “focus on basecamp, not the summit.&#

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Potential to DISRUPT business CISOs are accustomed to constant innovation. Be prepared to tell the CISO how your solution can be deployed alongside existing technologies without causing disruptions. When startups present to the Dreamit team, we love to see use cases. However, he also coaches them on what to avoid.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. From telling compelling data-driven stories to aligning metrics with investor priorities, these approaches will equip you to present your startup’s impact in a clear and persuasive manner.

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StartupNation

MAY 11, 2021

While some businesses were better positioned to deal with the challenges the pandemic presented, others struggled. The opportunity to radically change how a service was delivered and how customers were engaged has long been an option, as the technology to enable it has been available. Opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

More than 3,700 startups — from 92 countries — applied across XTC’s competition tracks: Agtech, Food & Water, Cleantech & Energy, Edtech, Enabling Tech, Fintech, Healthtech and Mobility & Smart Cities. You know they’ll bring the heat and present a finely tuned pitch. Enabling Tech: Dot Inc. ,

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

This article presents real-world examples of business leaders who successfully overcame various crises, from supply chain disruptions to regulatory shifts. The team was presented with a decision—wait and see or act now. Entrepreneurship often involves facing unexpected challenges head-on.

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Gust

JULY 3, 2012

As I wrote in Part I of this post , many of the most creative and disruptive startup businesses in recent years have involved the use of intellectual property in innovative, non-traditional ways that defy easy categorization and stretch the boundaries of concepts such as the fair use doctrine in copyright.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. We connect consumers and businesses to enable high-quality, ethical and transparent data exchange.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

One clear differentiator is that the company functions as an enabler (at payment rails and the core infrastructure) within banking and payments. “The focus was to leverage our ability as an enabler to create proprietary technology for both segments.” Appzone clearly plays a different game from other African fintechs.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. With a minimum investment of $7,000 and additional units in increments of $5,500, SDAC is ideal for new angel investors who want to gain hands-on experience and learn via workshops, meetings, and presentations.

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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. Along the way, the service drops the English helpers and presents the child with only Spanish instructions. Two other companies presented in the Austin pitch-off.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Scaling a national restaurant chain presents a longer list of challenges. Its captivating tone, relevant content, and user-focused approach have enabled the company to partner with like-minded influencers , reach new audiences , capitalize on the order-ahead market, and generate a loyal following of brand enthusiasts.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. You may hire a superstar, but if they are not a cultural fit then s/he can become very disruptive to the team.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Presently, Brian has launched Crypto VCF and is Co-GP in it’s Blockchain Opportunity Fund. Investing enables me to “roll up my sleeves” and advise while also enjoying the upside that comes with successfully implementing the plan to scale. In addition, Brian has built and sold two companies of his own.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Chris feels that he also wants to enable small business customers to do that. We've been hearing it a lot — this time in history presents a lot of opportunity for disruption. Disruption comes from this space. Disruptive Innovation. He coined the concept of disruptive innovation. This is not going to work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The idea that got to me was that we were allowing people to invest in the long term, we enable them to invest in instruments they didn’t have access to before,” said Pedro Pineda, co-founder and CEO of Fintual. For Pineda, disrupting the financial sector also seemed like a lot of fun, he thought. “I

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Tune in to presentations, panel discussions, breakout sessions and interactive Q&As with key tech leaders. We’re disrupting boring, inefficient and outdated diversity training through real talk and interactive gaming. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi. Go Together, Inc. : Founded by Shawntera Hardy. Unpacking : Unpacking is the No.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A number of tips and tools are presented that help small businesses better manage their cash flow. By staying on top of your financial position, you can avoid potential cash flow issues, specifically unexpected cash shortages, enabling planning for growth opportunities. Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Revolution Growth has long invested in tech-driven companies that are disrupting legacy industries, particularly where there is a distinct opportunity to modernize the customer experience. Orchard fits this mold perfectly with its tech-forward approach to improving the outdated, status quo experience of home buying. housing market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Understanding and presenting the size of the market you’re targeting is critical to securing funding for your business. When you present your market size data to investors, they’ll look for TAM, SAM and SOM information. I recently attended a presentation by a company that produces innovative, nutrient-rich olives and peppers.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From highlighting potential returns and problems to starting your pitch with the customer’s story, these leaders shared their insights on how to effectively present your business ideas to potential investors. Present Information in a Structured Order Investors are creatures of habit. The key here is engagement.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

And good news, btw, we’re offering 15% off Disrupt tickets (excluding online or expo tickets) for you, our trusty Daily Crunch readers. Obstacles abroad : Amazon faces some tough competition in India, and Manish reports that has presented some challenges in the e-commerce giant’s ability to gain a more prominent foothold in the country.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. It is enabling people to contribute to the possibility that their children will enjoy the lives that they did and making them feel good about it? — ?through Most of what we wear on our bodies today is made from plastic. This needs to change. And it will.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Dipp also works with e-commerce enablers, or agencies that help brands distribute products across multiple channels. For example, it will allow marketers to use prompts to generate images as a first draft of ideas to present to designers. Chen says most have large sales and marketing teams, but a shortage of designers.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As they face the challenges presented by recent worldwide business disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employers nonetheless now are wrestling with how to prepare for a new, more flexible work model in terms of where and how employees work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 Last year was a challenging one for the company, as the pandemic disrupted some of its activities; excluding 2020, Tugende has doubled in team size year-on-year. million in a Series A extension round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The company’s first product, i-Accept, was designed in an effort to disrupt the more than the $70 billion per year spent by banks and merchants everywhere on point-of-sale card readers.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

It’s much easier to evaluate a group of investments when they’re presented in a consistent way. Firms like MaxMyInterest can enable this. Private investing, as an industry, is still going through early cycles of disruption before coalescing around dominant service providers with comprehensive solutions. Consistency.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

So why — when presented with the task of developing new “normal” hybrid workplaces — are we allowing the same systemic problems that boxed generations of Black and brown people out of the workforce to exist? Cravins Jr. is the executive vice president of the National Urban League.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware. The way Incooling CEO Helena Samodurova sees it, the IT world is experiencing two major crises: an energy crisis and a supply chain crisis.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For those who can’t tune in, here’s a list of all the companies presenting in New York and San Francisco over the next two days. CEO Colin Bortner is working on a treatment for infertility and plans to enable families to have genetic children who can’t otherwise with current solutions. San Francisco cohort.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In addition, a direct customer feedback loop enables The Naked Market to quickly gauge which products are winning with consumers so they can be scaled. Jeffrey Yam, executive director at Integrated Capital, met Fugman and Kost in Hong Kong and had already gotten to know them well when they presented Yam with their business plan.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Businesses are transforming their ways of working to keep pace with disruption. Founded in 2016, theDesk offers flexible and productive workspaces with a focus on building inclusive and collaborative communities that enable meaningful business connections.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

The tool enables decision-makers, managers, engineering teams, and business analysts to quickly and effortlessly create interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without all the noise and complexity of traditional design software. How is your offering disrupting the industry? Welcome, Uizard. The Offering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space. Shuttlers , a “tech-enabled scheduled bus sharing” company, is itching to change that. After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6

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