TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

At Qumra, we get excited about companies that disrupt traditional industries while doing good and improving quality of life. Our portfolio includes some great examples such as Fiverr that has disrupted the labor market by unlocking the global talent pool, or Talkspace, which is providing access to therapy to all. Zoomin Software.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 7, 2022

Years ago, I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. An entrepreneur makes a claim that stretches comfort. Perhaps the greatest of these is use of the “what if” or “why” question streams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2022

One of Pantheon Design’s e-mobility customers waited 18 months before its injection molds, which are used for producing parts, arrived from China. Many of the 3D printing startups that secure big VC checks are run by smart people who have never been in a real factory, which is hot and smelly, says the entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

From humble origins a decade ago as a translation platform for news agencies, it’s now used by 500 million people across the world to learn Spanish, English, French and more, all while generating bookings of $190 million in 2020. Discover how Duolingo started with CEO Luis von Ahn at Disrupt 2021.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Challenges: It’s not really that hard to acquire users for your product at this stage given your value proposition is clear and the product is somehow useful. Historically, this is where EdTech entrepreneurs have failed. There is a mix of science, engineering and philosophy behind that which needs careful study and growth-minded teams.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You need a great idea—ideally one that is disruptive and will scale and that you care about passionately. Many entrepreneurs confide that raising capital is their hardest task. Mix in humor to show your personality. Consider a website that separately contains useful materials, depending on the cycle of your business.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Accenture has been using TouchCast’s technology for its own events, but that is likely just one part of its interest: Accenture also has a lot of corporate customers that tap it to build and implement interactive services, so potentially this could lead to more customers in TouchCast’s pipeline. .” Not at all, it turns out.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. To connect with consumers on an emotional level, “you need a mix of goodwill, what-we-stand-for ideology, social prestige and customer delight — among other affinity-building ingredients.” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

We want every merchant selling online to use our tools to run and superpower their stores.”. There was also some venture debt mixed in, and TriplePoint Capital provided that. At the same time, it’s fun to build in silence without too much disruption. We wanted to be the ‘Microsoft for e-commerce merchants.’

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. ” Using art-generating AI, Deep Agency creates and offers “virtual models” for hire starting at $29 per month (for a limited time), letting customers place the models against digital backdrops to realize their photoshoots.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

But if we become effective at commercializing innovative solutions of passionate entrepreneurs, we stand a chance. Unlike traditional lending, angel investment is seldom tied to collateral, college degrees, or other assets that some entrepreneurs don’t have access to. If we get the money, how will we use it? were made in 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. Patrik Juránek from Startup Disrupt community. Vaccination.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Entrepreneurs cite IRAP , the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program, as key to obtaining funds that subsidize wages for staff and contractors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

This seed round, one of the largest in the Middle East and Africa, is a mix of debt and equity financing. While Opontia does not disclose the ratio of equity and debt, it confirmed that the majority was debt which will be used to make acquisitions. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. But more than that, this IPO is a useful measuring stick for keeping tabs on the IPO market as a whole.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Maybe in-car calls need to be disrupted soon, too). ” An existing iteration on the podcast theme — a entrepreneur training course that it has developed in connection with its Masters of Scale podcast, has been downloaded 10,000 times in its first 8 weeks on the market. “We know that’s not a typical viewpoint.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Yet, to a growing number of entrepreneurs in the Valley, when one physical door closes, a virtual one opens. By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. So for me, it’s not hard at all to use it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. I’ve become less enamored with that over time.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Years ago I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. The entrepreneur– founder explained this problem away by stating that the designers and manufacturers would ship direct after we’d grown to a large enough size.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. Leaders often approach complex problems using experts and interview-based, analytical techniques that have been honed for complicated challenges.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2020

Combine a pandemic, childcare disruptions, anxious kids home from school and your job—or stress about that job going away—and parenting becomes a case study in stress management, patience, organization and crisis communications. Parenting has never been considered easy, but lately it’s become exponentially harder. Social time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Not a bad thing, but as a result, there are few “hungry” tech entrepreneurs. Use discount code HALLO to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. and Nomono. Vaccine news.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. And most of us start with zero training. Subscribe by email.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 27, 2017

We’re seduced by its convenience: more than 50% of plastic is used once and thrown away. In humans, certain plastics are known to disrupt the endocrine system, impair neurological function, and have been linked to cancer, obesity, early puberty and recurrent miscarriages. Discover the Entrepreneurs’ Organization today!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

It’s a decent decision-making tool, provided the fund’s partners are disciplined and intellectually honest in its use. The hero’s journey by Joseph Campbell is a plot structure used to analyze myths and movies. It’s been used in the Hobbit and Dune. It’s used by Pixar. If done well, this contrast is seamless.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Find the right traits The goal is to attract a true digital talent who is an expert in delivering digital results within the development, data, or even disruption. To cope with various forms of internal resistance, a certain amount of resilience and a good portion of no-nonsense attitude and unpretentiousness can be useful here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. Looking ahead, KPMG’s view on the prospects for financial services M&A over the next six to 12 months is mixed. Today the U.S. ” Image Credits: Paystand/Yaydoo.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

And this key piece of the digital transformation puzzle is fully focused on entrepreneurs and investors. Others equal the countries that we have around us. But the whole law becomes a revolution, actually, not only for Spain but for entrepreneurs across the world because we are creating a new international hub for startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Use discount code MIAMICRUNCH to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Many of Miami’s entrepreneurs, investors and startups have historically had ties to Latin America. Offices were created for a time when technology used to be limited and the fastest way to communicate was in person.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. We’re going to use that to distill the ideal set of slides for a pitch deck (and combine it with some storytelling ).

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Juganu: Using light to chase away Covid-19. Hot-button issues in the US election. Investors around the world are focused on the US Presidential election. Tevel’s autonomous drones are equipped with a one-meter long mechanical claw, which can pick fruit, or be used for thinning and pruning tasks in orchards. Healthcare.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. These were the knob-twiddling soundboard jockeys who actually mixed the albums. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

What we later saw during the pandemic was our business took a major turn towards growth in Q4 ’20 as our mix of off-premise tasting and digital solutions amplified one another. We’ve seen commerce continue to disrupt our world. How soon until you authenticate users using Ethereum (and the MetaMask browser extension)?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 7, 2023

Also, the complex nature of software products and the teams that run them means that the pricing page is a pretty easy place to make updates without disrupting other work. Or are they using the pricing page to make the final decision? How your product is sold — Sales Teams vs Self Service vs a Mix?

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