Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

If your product lowers energy bills, customers will listen. Climate change will turn all our legacy industries on their heads, which screams opportunity for new business models and approaches.”  — Ryan Levinson In other words, disruption is coming whether we like it or not; the smart money is already stepping up. “We

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2025

This tendency is exaggerated when the new offering is disruptive or innovative. A startup without customers is either an expensive hobby or a complete waste of energy, time and often a good product/service. If the offering is truly innovative and/or disruptive, this first step is even more vital.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 20, 2025

But when money is the issue, your time, energy and focus are drained from other important areas of your life or business. Any disruption to the tedium of daily activity from weather, disaster, revenues slowdown or product problems will stress the company infrastructure if there is not a cushion to use during such times.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Analysts estimate $1 trillion could be spent on data centers and energy expenses in the AI boom. It will bring vast disruption and fuel positive transformation at unprecedented speed and scale. The magnitude of investment is beyond crazy and will reverberate throughout our businesses.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Saves employee time and energy: Automation alone is enough to turn an otherwise seven-hour manual task into a five-minute one. That can expedite processes exponentially, allowing your employees to prioritize higher-value tasks that are more deserving of their energy and attention. Here are some key reasons to implement it.

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StartupNation

MAY 22, 2025

Delegation Strategies : Eliminate activities that take away your energy or time that you could be focused on for more productivity and brainstorm ways to allocate those tasks somewhere else. Contingency Planning : Prepare for the most likely scenarios that would cause disruption and focus on robust backup systems.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Its superconducting architecture enables order-of-magnitude improvements in processing speed and energy efficiency, making it a powerful alternative to today’s conventional silicon-based compute platforms. We’re building compute systems for the edge of what’s physically possible,” said Michael Lafferty, CEO of Snowcap Compute.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

And we will see legacy applications embrace AI to make their products better and to remain competitive with the AI-first disrupters. So this pain and suffering will force an acceleration of the energy transition from carbon to clean energy. It is a lot easier for humans to react to something that is happening to them right now.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They are working every day to introduce novel technologies and disruptive approaches to a variety of industries, which will have the power to transform and reimagine our future. Breakthrough Energy was founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to solve the climate crisis.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.” Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2023

Miranda Naiman, a 7-year EO Tanzania member and an unstoppable force for good, is the founder of Empower , a disruptive consulting firm that passionately provides talent, advisory and insight services to clients across the African continent. My core values of Stay in the Light, Feed the Family, and Service Before Self are my true North.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. The Disrupt agenda so far features more than 80 interviews, panel discussions, events and breakout sessions that span the startup tech spectrum… with more to come!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2024

“I have discovered the Fountain of Energy for entrepreneurs: It is GSEA!” – Roxana Shershin, US East Regional GSEA Expert Need to reignite your entrepreneurial spark? Fountain of energy I have found the Fountain of Energy, and it is GSEA. They dream big, aiming to disrupt the status quo and change the world.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At FLUIX: provides autonomous AI for infrastructure that saves up to 40% in energy costs. Twelve of 23 cohort members are based in U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, well-attended startup events in the world — is around the corner, taking place September 19–21! Outsiders may not realize just how much work goes into planning Disrupt. If you want to receive this in your inbox every Sunday, sign up here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

While the desire and intention to create disruptive digital customer experiences grows, however, the majority of B2B companies struggle to deliver. To create an innovative product that generates a high return on investment, B2B companies will need to make strategic choices on where to focus their energy. Ask yourself: ?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. It takes both to build a community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I only point out that there are side benefits of the bursts of energy, enthusiasm and investment dollars. I see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs. I can’t argue that this is better than slow, rational growth. And the bursting of bubbles isn’t bad for everybody.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Students are great source of ideas because they’re willing to challenge the existing norms – the basis for all disruption. Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Another exciting area we have not seen much activity in is robotics for renovation to improve energy efficiency. With cars, it is almost always better to replace an old car with a new one despite the manufacturing burden as there are such significant gains in energy saving.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

But he has certainly developed the technology for electric cars to outperform gas-burning vehicles in acceleration, speed, and energy efficiency. And now he is zeroing in on the energy sector and developing sustainable energy storage solutions that could remake energy as we know it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

SunFi , the Nigerian clean tech startup that connects people and businesses who want solar energy access to payment plans that match their needs, has raised $2.325 million in seed funding. SunFi isn’t Thomas’ first rodeo at the helm of an energy startup. And that’s what Rotimi’s previous upstart did.

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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. Its vision is to reimagine all the food products on supermarket shelves at scale using Charaka, to disrupt the way the world eats.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, it quickly evolved into a platform facilitating remote team management for over 40 companies globally, providing job opportunities amidst the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fundraising is akin to dating; be cautious of projecting ‘needy’ energy, as seasoned investors can easily detect it.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The genuine progress in IT from the 1970s up to the 2000s masked the relative stagnation of energy, transportation, space, materials, agriculture and medicine. Our ability to do basic things such as protect ourselves from earthquakes and hurricanes, to travel and to extend our lifespans is barely increasing [since the 1960s].

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As It’s something any public transportation rider in New York City intuitively understands—buses are more efficient and cheaper means of moving people by all measurements such as cost and energy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

According to a recent survey from Capgemini, companies see disruption in the supply chain as the top risk to their business growth, ahead of rising raw material prices and the energy crisis. Taken together, it’s thrown the global supply chain for a loop and then some.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Saurabh Sharma, Co-founder of Championfy, expressed his views, stating, “We are thrilled to become an integral part of Ampverse, and you can expect this collaboration to result in innovative products and services that will disrupt the gaming landscape.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” . “The appointment of Lip-Bu Tan as the newest member of Sima.ai’s board of directors is a strategic milestone for the company. As over-100-employee Sima.ai

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 4, 2023

When 500 small business decision makers were asked to list their top challenges, they made high inflation (63%), economic recession (39%), and supply chain disruptions (30%) their top three. Over half (55%) said they are now more hopeful about their business’ success than one year ago.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Our Next Energy. Our Next Energy , or ONE, is a next-gen battery tech startup in Detroit that is creating better, safer, more efficient batteries for the future of electric vehicles. Our Next Energy recently raised $25 million and is backed by BMW, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos. Apply now to Autobooks. Perigon Health.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Where do the new entrants like YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Huffington Post, Boxee, Netflix, Demand Media and other disruptive offerings fit into that equation and how is it changing? I also feed off of the energy of others. Who else is complicit and equally bound by The Innovator’s Dilemma ? Will this hold in the future?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Federal Reserve leading a global trend of interest rate hikes; an evolving European energy crisis; the first land war in Europe in 70 years; various supply chain disruptions; an ongoing global pandemic; growing global trade tensions, and, to top-off the sundae, a slowly collapsing Chinese credit bubble.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 11, 2023

developed and manufactured UAS system that alleviates supply chain disruptions and bolsters system security. The Intense Eye product line has been fully designed in partnership with U.S. companies and small businesses like Alpine, creating an entirely U.S.-developed Cleared List.

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