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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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How Mayht, a small startup, is taking on the world of speaker goliaths

TechCrunch

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. Yes, innovations are happening, but core speaker technology rarely moves in a way that could be described as truly innovative.

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Cruz Foam’s shell-based Styrofoam alternative brings in $3.4M seed with DiCaprio and Kutcher

TechCrunch

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. We seek innovation from everywhere and we know sometimes the newest ideas don’t necessarily come from the incumbents in the industry.” Both will join as advisors.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more

TechCrunch

This year, we’re adding a new feature: Our guests will analyze pitch decks submitted by members of the audience to identify their strengths and weaknesses. In the United Kingdom and Europe, government innovation programs have helped entrepreneurs close higher numbers of Series A and B rounds.

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Why the Petal Diagram Isn't the Best Competition Diagram for Startup's Pitch

Tomasz Tunguz

Steven Blank wrote yesterday about a novel way of depicting a startup’s competitive landscape in a pitch deck, called a petal diagram. Third, the slide conveys the dynamics within the ecosystem: who is partnered with whom; which incumbents are looking to partner/acquire vs go it alone, etc.

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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

Both Sides of the Table

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Innovation. ” Let’s start with some basics. And they have.

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Democratizing Design

Andreessen Horowitz

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. You ship fast, you move fast, you can disrupt yourself. 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03] Dylan: I don’t think so.