Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups are innovation machines. 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. They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world.

startup 102

startup incumbents disruption frameworks 102

TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Today, her London-based firm works with startups around the world — and her startup clients have raved about the results, based on what we’ve heard in our TechCrunch Experts growth marketing survey. Nikki O’Farrell of KatKin told us that “[She has an] expert ear and eye from the world of startups/scaleups and growth.

founder 96

founder startup hospitality strategy 96

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 — the first in-person Disrupt in three years — is in the books. And as always, we end it by crowning the winner of Startup Battlefield. It began with 20: As seasoned TechCrunch readers will know, startups participating in the Startup Battlefield were handpicked to compete in the event.

disruption 104

disruption startup pitching frameworks 104

StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Cyberattacks are nothing new, but until recently the general consensus in the world of startups and small business was that only big, public companies with plenty of cash, clout and valuable data had to worry about them. What makes startups an attractive target for cyberattacks? That mindset is changing. Low-hanging fruit.

startup 133

startup frameworks leadership disruption 133

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.

disruption 195

disruption SaaS frameworks pitching 195

AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 5, 2023

At the helm of Awesome Ventures is Lok Yek Soon, a visionary entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience within the startup ecosystem. Awesome Ventures’ first fund focused only on B2B startups in the US and UK. The fund looks to invest in startups addressing climate changes our planet faces.

ventures 52

ventures founder startup energy 52

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This puts startups in the position of having to compete without losing their minds — or runway. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2022, I interviewed Ramp CEO Eric Glyman, Airbase CEO Thejo Kote and Anthemis partner Ruth Foxe Blader on the topic. For the unacquainted, Glyman and Kote both run startups in the spend management space.

advice 87

advice frameworks disruption capital 87

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

During the last two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022. These 20 companies were selected as the best of the brand-new Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for a chance to take home Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Intropic Materials. Minerva Lithium.

disruption 100

disruption startup energy sustainability 100

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Part of the allure of startups is that when things don’t go wrong, which they often do, you might just find yourself as an early employee of a rocket ship. But what happens when you want to disrupt a category that has been around the block a few times?

frameworks 102

frameworks disruption VC ventures 102

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Having a great idea isn’t enough when you’re starting a startup. For instance, if you choose to work with a popular framework, it’ll be easier to find engineers to join your team, and the learning curve will be easier for your existing developers. Because I think that is the name of the game when you’re talking about a startup.

frameworks 89

frameworks disruption development startup 89

TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Companies in other industries are on a hiring spree, but startups like Robinhood, Better.com and Peloton are laying off thousands as FAANG companies slow down their recruiting and look for places to save money. Many traditional valuation methods, such as discounted cash flow, aren’t as useful for valuing early-stage startups,” she writes.

pitching 88

pitching frameworks disruption strategy 88

TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Venrock Vice President Todd Graham has some frank advice for founders at venture-backed startups: “It would be wise to generate a return at some point.” When VCs turned to Zoom, Chicago startups were ready for their close-up. When VCs turned to Zoom, Chicago startups were ready for their close-up.

startup 103

startup health board VC 103

American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Ideas for a startup business emerge from a variety of sources that should be thoroughly researched and evaluated. 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?

peer-to-peer 85

peer-to-peer innovation disruption incubation 85

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. This enables entrepreneurs to build their startups while contributing to solve major challenges problems.

hospitality 315

hospitality health mix-use enablement 315

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.

disruption 84

disruption pitching frameworks innovation 84

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.

ventures 52

ventures frameworks collaboration venture capital 52

Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. As the Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN) researched last year, the early signs of studio data are just the beginning for the growing expectations.

disruption 90

disruption accelerator networking creativity 90

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. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

incumbents 376

incumbents disruption frameworks innovation 376

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?

SaaS 83

SaaS disruption frameworks angel investing 83

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.

frameworks 89

frameworks financing finance pitching 89

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.

frameworks 76

frameworks board disruption development 76

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The startup has also maintained its coveted unicorn status with a valuation of “just over” $1.5 “My co-founder Samar and I have been building a durable execution framework for the better part of 15 years, and much of that work is foundational to Temporal.”

frameworks 79

frameworks disruption board development 79

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.

disruption 40

disruption incumbents frameworks innovation 40

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. . ” .

frameworks 90

frameworks disruption innovation accelerator 90

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. There are unique contextual factors that the digital talents will be exposed to in terms of strategic disruption that lead to organizational transformation. Buckle up.

startup 74

startup disruption education strategy 74

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?

frameworks 91

frameworks founder incumbents disruption 91

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. Early Q3 indications show India’s startup ecosystem is going gangbusters. It’s hard to find actionable, proven advice for scaling startups.

financing 74

financing finance venture capital disruption 74

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? How does a previous startup failure factor into your decision to invest in a new company?

founder 98

founder culture frameworks board 98

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. That’s what Docracy is doing, and I believe it is some of the most important work that any startup is working on right now. This is how software used to get developed.

collaboration 361

collaboration frameworks communities construction 361

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Just over $15 billion went into startups in 2021 , according to LAVCA. Brazil and Mexico continue to lead as regions where many startups are getting funding, but as LAVCA’s statistics show, some of that investor love is being spread around to other countries like Colombia, Argentina and Chile. “The

capital 94

capital investing investment venture capital 94

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A wave of so-called direct lithium extraction startups are raising their hands with solutions to all of these problems. Minerva, which is participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 Startup Battlefield, says that it can extract one metric ton of lithium using just 30,000 gallons of water, and it can do it in three days.

disruption 93

disruption frameworks entrepreneurship pitching 93

Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

For those of us in that category, we’re not really in a position to write $50K–$200K checks, and honestly, we don’t want startups to have crazy cap tables loaded with small-volume investors. Not having an appropriate framework by which to evaluate the opportunity. The majority of investors, something like 80%, have a net worth of $5M.

angel investing 80

angel investing investing investment pitching 80

Jason Malki

JULY 26, 2023

She has been a thought-leader in tech for the past 8 years, her newsletter has 25k subscribers, she was named one of Bloomberg’s 100 Influential Latinos of 2022 , and she has spoken at numerous panels including at TechCrunch Disrupt, L’Attitude, NFT NYC, and a16z’s Google’s demo day at LA Tech Week 2023. The alphaa.io

communities 52

communities funders education frameworks 52

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.

culture 98

culture frameworks disruption education 98

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. ”

transportation 98

transportation frameworks board innovation 98

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. the kind of startups that take decades of optimization research at Princeton to get going).

frameworks 93

frameworks SaaS disruption innovation 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Startups that are backed by professional financial investors almost always have a Board of Directors that consists of some set of founders, investors and sometimes independent directors. It is worth pointing out that there are actually three levels of governance in venture-backed startups. This is often called “corporate governance”?—?in

board 204

board startup advice frameworks 204