TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

He also introduced me to the idea of zombie companies, which I appreciated as it is officially spooky season and we love a festive framework. Here’s why its important: Sensationalist AI aside, Guo’s framework for interesting applications in this space is helpful when trying to divvy up what she is and isn’t interested in.

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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. You can not adequately communicate how your solution can be deployed in phases without causing disruption.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But what happens when you want to disrupt a category that has been around the block a few times? Guo shared her framework around venture innings, and how that plays a role in her new focus areas at Conviction: Carving out conviction around the future of AI with Sarah Guo by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

So to help founders understand what a good tech stack should look like, we invited two experts on this topic, Preeti Somal , the EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp and Jill Wetzler , the VP of Engineering at Pilot , to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 to discuss everything from evaluating vendors to making sure you can rely on an open source product.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2022, I interviewed Ramp CEO Eric Glyman, Airbase CEO Thejo Kote and Anthemis partner Ruth Foxe Blader on the topic. We all know that cash is not nearly as readily available in 2022 as it was in 2021. This puts startups in the position of having to compete without losing their minds — or runway.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 — the first in-person Disrupt in three years — is in the books. During the first two days of Disrupt, the companies pitched before judges — multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders — for a chance to win $100,000 and the coveted Battlefield Cup. One startup emerged victorious.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The firm has created a framework that will uniquely help the earliest stage companies develop innovative cyber solutions that will also help accelerate product-market fit. Syn gives seed founders and companies access to its industry networks as well as opportunities to participate in related events the firm has for their portfolio companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Read on to learn why Joachimsthaler believes this framework encourages innovation more than any other business model. A traditional company focuses on disruption or becoming more customer centric. Solving major industry challenges or societal issues is part of the mindset, but often merely a secondary issue, just an afterthought.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

The crypto venture capital industry has become more selective thanks to the general market downturn and wavering trust caused by a slew of scandals and market disruptions, but investors at major firms are still writing checks in the space. We surveyed: Michael Anderson , co-founder, Framework Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

However, by adopting a “jobs-to-be-done” framework, early-stage startups can define, categorize, capture and organize all their customers’ needs, writes Michael Popchuk, co-founder and CEO of Saldo Apps. Battery startups are working to disrupt more than just cars and trucks. Image Credits: Bill Hinton / Getty Images.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Here is a framework that can help you delve deeper into your quest to choose the right startup business: Self-Evaluation : What interests, hobbies, and passions do you have? This is particularly true of industries where technology is disrupting business models.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. What is “disruptive&# is that is also dramatically less expensive. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

This framework for marketing technology products has been one of the canonical foundational concepts to product-market fit for the three decades since it was first published in 1991. Why is it that in recent years, wild-eyed optimistic VCs and entrepreneurs keep undershooting market size across the tech and innovation sector?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

During the last two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022. TechCrunch editors and expert judges winnowed them down to the following five finalists who will be presenting in front of a whole new panel of judges on the last day of Disrupt, October 20, 2022: Advanced Ionics.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The best way to find marketing hacks is by using “stringent experimentation frameworks to run countless A/B tests,” he advises. TechCrunch Disrupt 2022: Taking the BS Out of Your TAM. Make sure to bring warm layers if you’re visiting SF for Disrupt — and if you can’t make it, I hope you’ll join us online.

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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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. Neither Taleb nor Christensen maintains a list of the industries or companies likely to be disrupted, for example.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Blockchain is at its most powerfully disruptive when it supplies the missing link. can repair the attention-driven digital economy. What’s your web3 strategy?

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Studios do this by using repeatable frameworks (imagine a factory) to test these ideas and back them with funding and resources in order to launch and grow powerful, scalable startups. With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years. Y-Combinator: 0.5%

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Some companies want to change the world in one dimension: a better product or a disruptive go-to-market. But customers wanted the better product with the same pricing framework as the rest of the industry. In that case, a lower cost, less expensive competitor with a new pricing model may be highly disruptive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

The startup will use the latest funding to advance its functionalities on top of the NPP’s PayTo framework and accelerate its international expansion, starting with New Zealand, driven by growing demand for Zepto’s infrastructure in the region, Jewell said. After New Zealand, Zepto wants to enter the U.S. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Durable Temporal calls itself a “durable execution system” that allows companies to manage an application’s state and monitor the execution of logic, all the while enabling them to push out software updates without disruption.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The company will also look at its sales and marketing framework. We believe this is a huge opportunity, a $400 billion market to disrupt, and OnLoop is providing better ways to communicate and give feedback.”. The company currently has 22 employees. Real-time performance review platform Reflektive raises $25M Series B round.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

There are multibillion dollar industries that can be disrupted if autonomous vehicles become successful.” “We need the confidence of a clear regulatory framework to invest the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars necessary to manufacture vehicles at scale. “And that’s understandable. ”

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Docracy, born out of Techcrunch Disrupt's 2011 Hackathon, just brought legal negotiations into the cloud with their new Super Signing feature release. When the law becomes so complicated that only a select few with the money to hire lawyers can translate and manipulate it, you give a tremendous advantage to those already in power.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 13, 2012

We've seen disruption by machines among all sorts of human labor, particularly in the area of "making stuff". We've certainly seen technology labor get disrupted by technology itself before. The iPhone meant that a ton more devs needed to learn all sorts of new code, without the benefit of having prior frameworks and shortcuts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 15, 2017

It’s based on a rigid framework that stifles the free flow of creativity that’s essential to success. But instead of encouraging me to accept my differences, teachers called me “disruptive” or “distracted” and advised me to “be more like the other kids.”. In fact, it’s a common thread among many of today’s top entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sequoia hosted a private, sponsored AMA for founders in Startup Battlefield and Startup Alley at the virtual Disrupt SF last month. How do you break through the pattern-matching framework some VCs have in their head? Stephanie Zhan, Konstantine Buhler, George Robson and Josephine Chen shared some key insights and best practices.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mauricio and I had this bold vision of backing as many disruptive entrepreneurs as we could, and leveraging our previous backgrounds and experiences.”. “The market wasn’t so established and meal companies, such as Rappi, were just getting started and reaching their growth phase,” Lloreda added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. We have many more Disrupt recaps to come in the next few days, so stay tuned. Following last week’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim considered startups’ various options for fundraising beyond venture capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Among them is Minerva Lithium , a University of North Carolina at Greensboro spinoff that has produced Nano Mosaic, a coordinated polymer framework that looks a bit like black gravel and extracts critical materials from brine in just three days.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

One lesson — which was especially true at Amex — is to always be prepared for shifting markets that may disrupt your business. I find Clayton Christensen’s jobs to be done (JTBD) framework very powerful because it’s relevant to the product, marketing and strategy teams. What problem are they solving?

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

He has researched how to bring disparate areas of stochastic optimization together under one framework that he has dubbed “ sequential decision analytics ” to optimize problems where each decision in a series places constraints on future decisions. We are the first company that can learn and plan for an uncertain future.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

We have guidelines within our investment framework. In addition to discussing the factors that contribute to successful investments, Lok shared valuable insights on the mistakes he has made in the past. Can you share any investing mistakes that you made if there are any and the lessons we can learn from it?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

“Based on the excellence of the team and their truly disruptive offering, we are excited to support them on their path to becoming the FinOps solution of choice for large enterprises.”. We found it difficult,” he recalled.

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