TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mark your calendar for TechCrunch’s annual celebration of the startup community — TC Disrupt 2021 returns this September 21-23! At Disrupt , you’ll rub virtual elbows with the thousands of startup founders, investors and innovators building cutting-edge products and companies.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Startup Battlefield — the matriarch of all pitch competitions — is the stuff of tech legend. A little startup by the name of Dropbox competed in the Battlefield at TC50 (the precursor to Disrupt) way back in 2008. Your demo and presentation will be, well, pitch perfect when you deliver it to panels of top VC judges.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

anyway), but it’s never too early to start planning for TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 , which takes place on September 21-23. This all-virtual conference allows makers, innovators, entrepreneurs and investors from around the world to connect, collaborate and grow. What’s new and different about exhibiting in Startup Alley at Disrupt 2021?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

You can still shoot your shot to pitch to an amazing panel of judges and thousands of TC viewers. TechCrunch editors will select 10 founders from around the world to pitch on stage July 9th. Without further ado, here are your judges for the Early Stage Pitch-Off: Ben Sun, Primary Venture Partners. Apply here.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Angel investment fund selects six companies to pitch live on USD campus on May 9. Tickets for live pitch event now available. The fund’s portfolio companies have raised about $191 million so far as they scale and disrupt industries.” Actual amount invested depends on total dollars raised.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The YLAI Network hosted Michael Goldberg , a professor of entrepreneurship and an expert in international business development, for a Facebook chat in November for Global Entrepreneurship Week. Michael answered questions from network members requesting advice for their entrepreneurial endeavors. Many paths to successful startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this September. To highlight global innovation across multiple sectors, we expanded the Startup Battlefield program and it was a wild success, last year. Are you ready?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. We’re talking more than 40 highly engaging presentations, workshops and roundtables with interactive Q&As and plenty of time for networking.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas need to be disrupted? Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. More Accessible Innovation Resources for All.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

During this one-day startup bootcamp, you’ll learn about legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, pitching, recruiting and more. We’re talking more than 40 highly engaging presentations, workshops and roundtables with interactive Q&As and plenty of time for networking.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Potential to DISRUPT business CISOs are accustomed to constant innovation. This can result in loss of data, blocked network traffic, or configuration changes that could be detrimental to an organization. Be prepared to tell the CISO how your solution can be deployed alongside existing technologies without causing disruptions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield is one of the most popular parts of our annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference which is happening on September 21-23 this year. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, TechCrunch Disrupt is coming up around the corner, September 21-23. Startups: You can apply to be a part of the action here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. Network with corporations, VCs, & founders. What are the breakthrough tech innovations transforming industries to build a radically better world? Networking.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We can’t wait to host out-of-this-world experts , innovative agencies and the bold, boundary-breaking startups focused on building a future in space. Ready to place your early stage startup in orbit with industry movers and shakers — and pitch your startup to attendees during the event? Buy a Space Startup Exhibitor Pass.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? The other entrepreneur quoted in the story is from a guy pitching a Pinterest clone. Perhaps I need to rethink that. Needless to say, he's having some trouble raising.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

. “There is such a funding gap in this space – lots of funding going into research, but not into the seeding of these projects, empowering youth across the world, thinking how to disrupt and re-engineer industry.” ” Like the Olive Garden, when you’re part of the network, you’re family.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

As co-founder at Radical Ventures and Singularity University ’s chair for entrepreneurship and open innovation, Pascal is focused on creating new business models for success and positively embracing disruption. I hear way too many entrepreneurs pitch stuff that I don’t understand—and I’m sure they don’t understand either.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Startups are known to disrupt the markets, and this disruption usually ends up in developing totally new demand for its offerings. Such demand and other metrics of a disruptive startup, when represented in the form of a graph, form a shape of a hockey stick.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

So when you pitch, be sure to point out what makes your company/news stand out. So while we’re still getting pitched (a whole bunch), we more than ever are reviewing pitches with a bigger-picture lens and hope you’ll do the same when you’re doing the pitching. Why is it unique? Why would our readers care? Weekly News.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. Badges were an innovation.

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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. Now, that skillset seems destined to be obsolete, as the network goes from physical to virtual. So will that hold true for ones and zeros?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A significant amount also came from KEC holdings, a NJ based family office led by Jeff Citron, who is known for using technology to disrupt a number of industries. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works. It's the black box of the startup world.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 8, 2023

Uncertainty, though challenging, can be a catalyst for improvement and innovation, reinforcing the need for transparent communication and learning from our mistakes. Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity for innovation, not a harbinger of failure. The experience highlighted the importance of adaptability and resilience.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

An disruptive idea marks the start of a startup. This validation often requires the startup to pitch in some money. However, for some startups, it’s a essential inflow of capital just to set base for something big that can disrupt the industry. But not all ideas convert into real businesses. Purpose of Pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 07: Coinbase Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Mobility-as-a-service.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. EverActive has won multiple awards, including a recent 2021 IDEA Innovation Award. They have been recognized for this innovation in FreightDocs, FreightWaves, and Venture Michigan. DocNetwork.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Asset inventory has historically been a challenge when workforces were physically sitting in company offices and on company networks,” said Paul Baird, chief technical security officer at cloud security firm Qualys. Before you can deliver on any of the promises in your pitch deck, you’ll need to build a team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. ” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Eight hundred miles away, New Orleans’ cornetist Charles “Buddy” Bolden was innovating something so new that his contemporaries didn’t have the words to describe it. Two black entrepreneurs, despite living in segregated America, found ways to exercise their creativity and disrupt their worlds. What did they share? The barbershop.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Any true disruption will change all the rules. I sometimes see VC’s come up with “thesis-based investing” and I get this at 20,000 feet because we can be smart enough to know the general fields where we believe innovation will have attractive properties. We are their sparring partners, their sounding boards.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

The TechCrunch Podcast Network has a new podcast — and it’s taking you inside one of the most anticipated startup competitions in the world: Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. Inside Startup Battlefield Ready for a newsletter for your ears, anyone? Book your pass ASAP!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Even an extraordinary engineer or product lead who have built a breakthrough product aren’t guaranteed success unless they can get access to capital, get much needed press to drive low-cost customer acquisition and persuade fickle business leaders to join their company and help them shape their businesses beyond tech innovation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For those of you who might be interested in tracking emerging themes or actual investment opportunities, here’s a quick rundown of who pitched what (with the Pear-backed companies at the end of this list). Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.” ” Bonfire. ” Kale.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

“None of us in the founding team had any networks to speak of when we were growing up. So we started thinking long and hard about the concept of advice, and we became obsessed with opening up these closed networks.” And we had fairly little exposure to opportunity. Pricing for a five-minute call is set by Anyone users.

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

in " Flexport to open global network of consolidation centers. " Christopher Steiner of FundersClub discusses why most people at big companies aren't incentivized to take risks, even calculated ones, in " Big Companies Aren't Geared For Innovation. zip code in " Introducing Territory Planning in Mattermark.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

. “This investment will allow us to double-down in our core markets, accelerate our leadership position in places where we are already very strong and continue to expand our excellent Q-Commerce division, as well as bring new innovations to our unique multi-category offering to extend more choice to our customers.”. ”

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