David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

“ One summer day, probably in the 1870s, friends of a major short-seller got together on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, where they admired the enormous yachts of New York’s richest brokers. After gazing long and thoughtfully at the beautiful boats, the short seller asked wryly, ‘Where are the customers’ yachts?’ ”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

What inspired you to invest in peer-to-peer marketplaces? I’m always looking for new ways to innovate. If you’re not disrupting yourself someone else will be. I recommend hiring or acquiring a team of young, scrappy entrepreneurs to try and innovate upon your business constantly.”. It’s all about freedom.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

This weekend was Yom Kippur, holiest of the Jewish holidays and the day of atonement. It’s also the day when most Jewish minds are least focused since one needs to fast for 24 hours. But our rabbi captivated me this year and reminded me of one of the most important lessons I learned myself 15 years ago.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

The region had seen “lots of innovation for patients through a proliferation of telemedicine apps and even innovations for doctors, but the pharmacy and its workforce were largely unaddressed,” SwipeRx CEO Farouk Meralli said. The app also helps pharmacists search for new job opportunities or to post job offers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. They have high-priced property and zero innovation. Public Storage does about $2.4

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. Real estate remains a large, established multi-billion dollar category where lots of things continue to be done in lots of old fashioned ways.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. Allbirds is not alone in this vision or innovation — Tesla’s job is far greater than simply getting a driver from one place to another; Impossible Meats’ job is more than just feeding a hungry customer. This needs to change. And it will.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened, and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted. By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer During each year’s transition to the next, we take the chance to reflect on the accomplishments and challenges of the past, but our focus remains on the future.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

This makes us a somewhat unique case in the ecosystem and among our fintech peers in general – few companies have managed to reconcile over 100% year-over-year growth with a positive bottom line,” he told TechCrunch, describing Mercado Bitcoin as “the crown j ewel” of 2TM Group. Today, Mercado Bitcoin has about 500 employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending is back! I’m now the permanent host for TWiVC (until such time as they kick me off). Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf. The episode isn’t yet live but it should be in the morning (probably when you’re reading this) – you can find it here. Really!).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

But in the background, some excellent use cases for NFTs were being tried, including something that will disrupt how we consume music. Like many blockchain innovations, it’s a massive improvement on the old system. It included exclusive animations and a digital download?—?other Over the last 20 years?—?two two lost decades?

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You not only have to be an innovator but also a leader if you want to succeed in the startup ecosystem. For a startup to exist, you should have a disruptive idea, the right investor, and unique positioning. Once the goals are set, leaders constantly think about new and innovative ideas to achieve them. Focused on Future Goals.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

We are a state that seems ready to seize the moment and leverage the quality of life and business-friendly advantages here to add innovation and technology-based economic development to Oklahoma’s list of “greats.”. The Oklahoma Innovation Model attracts and unites scientific researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs and manufactures.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. More than ever, we need innovation. Angels are nimble, identifying and supporting entrepreneurs with desperately needed new technologies and innovations. We need angels.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

When Ryan and I decided to get involved in the education sector, comments from peers were along the lines of: ‘Oh, that’s sweet’ and ‘Are you doing that full time?’ When Ryan and I decided to get involved in the education sector, comments from peers were along the lines of: ‘Oh, that’s sweet’ and ‘Are you doing that full time?’

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Investors with industry expertise are invaluable in helping disruptive startups cross the chasm. You want to share your knowledge and help companies, but you also believe that new and innovative companies represent a good return opportunity over the long run for a small piece of your wealth. 3) Start with funds.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. Our mission is to build locally rooted and globally connected entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

World Innovation Lab (WiL) led the Series A, with new investors Uncorrelated Ventures and individual investor Jonathan Siegel also participating. The majority of Autify’s global peers offer low-code test automation solutions, targeting these at enabling software developers with a range of coding skills to perform their work faster.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

The details of exactly how this was going to happen were a bit sketchy, but having a big hairy audacious goal galvanized the innovation community into achieving something spectacular. In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent. Are we moving them from other workforces?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. There is a massive opportunity to provide products and services that will make life better for today’s seniors and future generations of older adults to come.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The future of TV will follow the rule of Deflationary Economics as I outline influenced by the book The Innovator’s Dilemma. By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. 200 million views.

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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. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes. Distribution costs have, too.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2021

This, despite research suggesting that immigrants contribute 40% more to innovation than local inventors. Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity , an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

More posts by this contributor Preparing for fintech’s second decade: 4 moves your firm must make now Over the last decade, fintech has evolved from a label for plucky startups into a sustained movement that has disrupted the traditionally stodgy financial services industry. It is worth first defining how we are categorizing “failure.”

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Continuations

APRIL 8, 2019

Many organized religions intentionally disrupt the Knowledge Loop. It can often be difficult to recognize just how much of one’s behavior, which one thinks of as free and voluntary, is actually tightly controlled by custom or peer pressure. The prior excerpts covered the freedom to learn , to create , and to share.

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Unvalidated Learnings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

“Businesses that disrupt/create huge markets with a non-replicable product offering a must-have service , which gets better the more people use it.” Jean de la Rochebrochard ( @jlr ), a partner at TheFamily , recently published a very good piece on Medium titled “ Here’s my investment thesis. What’s yours? ”?—?below We are hunting “unicorns”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. Market Size.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, in conversation with a16z’s Bob Swan, explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work. [00:59] That’s the exciting thing to me about building a technology.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2016

Because of these three attributes, chat seems to be reemerging as a potentially disruptive user interface for both consumers and business users. Post a note on Slack to provide peer feedback at work or file an expense. Post a note on Slack to provide peer feedback at work or file an expense. It’s not that chat is new.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. Silicon Valley has no monopoly on innovation; it happens everywhere. That line of questioning led Mittal and co-founder Boris Silver to build FundersClub in the way they did.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 11, 2023

By working with a business consultant, startups can better prepare themselves for challenges and unexpected disruptions, allowing them to respond quickly and effectively when the need arises. To understand the value of business consulting for startups, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their insights.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Meanwhile, Sequoia’s investments in payments tech companies spanned both consumer and business payments and operate in four distinct markets: buy now, pay later (BNPL), expense management, peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, and online payments acceptance. Welcome to The Interchange ! We saw a similar trend at a16z.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. 92% of consumers trust peer recommendations , while only 22% of brands are trusted. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. This had a dual purpose?—?the

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

When Ryan and I decided to get involved in the education sector, comments from peers were along the lines of: ‘Oh, that’s sweet’ and ‘Are you doing that full-time?’ When Ryan and I decided to get involved in the education sector, comments from peers were along the lines of: ‘Oh, that’s sweet’ and ‘Are you doing that full-time?’

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds.

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