TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

If you’ve been slacking and not bought yourself a Disrupt ticket yet, that’s cool, we still love you. Startups and VC While most established automotive players call the shots from sprawling, corporate palaces, Scout bases much of its operations — at least for now — out of a WeWork near Washington, D.C., PST, subscribe here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

If you read Reid Hoffman’s important book, “ Blitzscaling ” you’ll realize that in some markets that are large, global and being disruptive sometimes being first to global scale can be more important than short-term unit economics. Last year I pointed out that software would help build competitive moats and we’re already seeing that.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. Public Storage does about $2.4 Little old us.

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

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. ” A more favorable regulatory and social landscape is helping psychedelic startups gain a foothold, but they still have to walk a tightrope that’s susceptible to the vagaries of market sentiment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. Today the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

When I’m meeting a startup for the first time, my goal is to understand as much about the business and team as I can. Is the problem worth solving and if the startup succeeds, how valuable would it be? After a startup has left and I’m “doing diligence,” I want to test some of the assertions made by the company. First meeting.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Super.mx , an insurtech startup based in Mexico City, has raised $7.2 million seed round, which also saw capital from 500 Startups Mexico, Village Global, Anthemis and Broadhaven Ventures, among others. Unlike most insurtech startups in Latin America, Villarreal emphasizes that Super.mx million in a Series A round led by ALLVP.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. Startups and VC. In drug-related news, a startup called Wondermed raised $4.6 Fortunately, there’s a startup for that. I can’t wait to see your smiling faces there. Now, you might ask, Is this safe? million deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

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. The value prop is pretty clear. And here’s the thing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Leading the round is MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital, which are both existing investors in Railsbank. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. And the giant gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete. And what prompted this lawsuit?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. This a great example of company that is disrupting a traditional market. Oh, and one more thing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. funds, including J&T Ventures, Credo Ventures, Mxv Capital, and Plug & Play Tech Center. Community meets product. . million seed round.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

I run Revolution’s VC investments. We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. Startup America , an Obama administration initiative headed up by Steve Case. -

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Also prior to Clipboard, she led product management and business operations at Sendwave, an international money transfer startup. Besides incumbent staffing agencies, Deng acknowledges that there are several startups with business models similar to Clipboard’s, like NurseDash, CareRev and Nomad Health, which focuses on travel nurses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The startup creates a durable yet backyard-compostable packing foam out of shrimp shells produced (and discarded) by the seafood industry. Early on, the startup experimented with all kinds of formulations, finding that the foam could be tuned to meet diverse requirements for shape, rigidity, and so on. Both will join as advisors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Disrupt is turning 12 years old. But after a couple of years coming to you virtually, the world’s most impactful tech startup conference is coming back to real life. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. Disrupt Stage Agenda.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

They see opportunities within software, particularly around mobility-as-a-service ventures and fleet management, continued demand for delivery and the push for electrification and batteries as well as the financial instrument — SPACs — that so many startups turned to in 2020. But there’s a lot more; they even see tailwinds for eVTOLs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

US rule changes could mean more startups would need government approval to hire immigrants. Acquisitions are an important element of the startup ecosystem. For VC-backed companies, there are effectively three outcomes: standalone company (often via an IPO), merger or acquisition, or bankruptcy. More posts by this contributor.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. These are areas where digital tools have had an impact on other industries.

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