Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And I’ll bet that the leadership he displayed helped his angel decide he had the character worth backing. Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization. Inspiration/ Leadership – As an entrepreneur you’re always under-resourced.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We’re less than a month away from TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco! Mar Hershenson co-founded and serves as managing partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage investment firm in Palo Alto backing companies like Guardant Health, DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar and Branch. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” But “what is wrong with tech investing today?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

San Francisco-based FinTech company Mercury has announced a $300 million Series C investment round, bringing its valuation to $3.5 Mercury is a disruptive company with a bold vision for the future of banking, said Sonya Huang, partner at Sequoia Capital. billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2014

Technology is disrupting all types of media and talk radio will be no exception. ” Staying relevant will require leadership. ” Staying relevant will require leadership. But clearly funding for NPR will required leadership.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Decisiveness towards survival, and later investing, will move the needle forward. Primarily, there are three levels of innovation: incremental, sustaining and disruptive. Disruptive innovation is what most people mean when they say innovation. Cash Is Everything. For entrepreneurs, cash is everything right now.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. Seriously, this happens.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling Leonard Brody, one of the event’s carefully selected speakers who is known as “a leader of the new world order.” Master digital disruption with digital reinvention.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 29, 2025

Under her visionary leadership, SkySelect is transforming procurement processes, boosting transparency, and cutting costs significantly for MRO operations. Every day, Im surrounded by a passionate team that shares a common vision of disrupting an industry. How can our readers follow you on socialmedia?

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 18, 2022

Nicolas Biet is a partner in The Faktory Fund, a private early-stage investment fund, which invests in startups developing disruptive technology that enables new products to take worldwide leadership in B2B markets primarily in the Internet of Things and Software as a Service (SaaS) startups located in BeNeLux and France.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2024

A track record of successful investments positions the global firm to partner with top entrepreneurs across industries and geographies. billion in new funds earmarked for disruptive and transformative businesses. Observing emerging trends in the global startup ecosystem, Index Ventures announced the addition of $2.3

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. I’ve heard all of the VC arguments about using other people’s facilities, not wanting to invest in physical infrastructure (warehouses, trucks) and even silly ideas like wanting peer-to-peer storage. Public Storage does about $2.4 Why is it so valuable?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

While the desire and intention to create disruptive digital customer experiences grows, however, the majority of B2B companies struggle to deliver. According to Accenture, 80 percent of B2B companies try to innovate around CX , but fail to generate a satisfactory return on investment. Identify the Jobs to Be Done. Choose Your Focus.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . All of which brings me back to the question in the title: who makes the money on investing in future convenience? . It had eight gigabytes of storage.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

We’re bringing EO members and non-members behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC) as we profile the event’s emcee, Pascal Finette. He invests in these pioneering solutions through his nonprofit organization, Mentor for Good. Pascal was a tech entrepreneur before there was even a web browser.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Invested Interests. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . All of which brings me back to the question in the title: who makes the money on investing in future convenience? .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes. That’s a shame.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Less than a year later, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund invested in the company, and today, we are pleased to announce that BacklotCars was acquired by KAR Global (NYSE: KAR) for $425M, a win for the Kansas City ecosystem. Right off the bat, we were impressed with the company’s ability to rapidly expand across the U.S.

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

Used by permission of HarperCollins Leadership. Most were either trying to play catch up to startups that had come out of nowhere to disrupt their industries or to existing competitors who had gotten an earlier start at digital transformation. Copyright © 2021 by R “Ray” Wang. www.harpercollinsleadership.com. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. were doing.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Acrew Capital , founded by Theresia Gouw, Lauren Kolodny, Mark Kraynak, Asad Khaliq and Vishal Lugani in 2019 Amplifyher Ventures : founded by Tricia Black, General Partner, the focuses on diverse leadership teams with a unique ability to create flywheel effects of growth in new markets.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 7, 2023

Faye Sahai is Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in digital wellness and mental health. How did you break into tech investing? At Kaiser Permanente, I lead the Innovation Fund and Innovation Lab exploring how technology is disrupting health care. trillion dollars.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

I know this from firsthand experience: Along with many wins there are some investments I wish I’d turned down. So that you minimize the likelihood of learning the hard way, what follows are my top subtle red flags angel investors should heed when evaluating a potential investment. I missed the red flags.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. . After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai “I founded Sima.ai “Sima.ai

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. When the country first became independent, its mandate was to simply survive rather than thrive.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

The approach to geographic expansion was unorthodox, to say the least, and required leadership, partners, and investors to lean in to make the move work. The resulting approach was risk tolerant but thoughtful: CAVA opened its first store beyond the D.C.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

First, they need to know the investment alternatives available for their business and then determine how to meet the expectations of those investors. This article delves into the critical steps necessary to show investors that your startup is not just another great idea, but a venture worth investing in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ricardo Weder , former president of Cabify (a large ridesharing company operating in Latin America, Spain and Portugal) founded Jüsto in 2019 with a mission to “disrupt the Latin American grocery industry.” Jüsto marks General Atlantic’s fifth investment in Mexico since 2014.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2022

The investment agreement inked between LINE Southeast Asia Corp. and The Parentinc lays the foundation for both companies to disrupt the fast growing mother and baby-care market category which has seen little innovation thus far. We are thrilled to add LINE to our illustrious list of strategic partners.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

It’s clear that the additional overhead is generating higher prices, but not necessarily better results, according to Sumi Das and Nina Gerson, who lead healthcare investments at Capital G. India’s path to SaaS leadership is clear, but challenges remain. Derek Idemoto, SVP for corporate development and Cisco investments.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

He considers Flippa to be “the investment bank for the 99%,” of small businesses, providing an end-to end platform that includes a proprietary valuation product for businesses — processing over 4,000 valuations each month — and a matching algorithm to connect with qualified buyers. Flippa is an incredible opportunity for us,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The company also received a strategic investment from Stanford University. . The employees can choose from lessons that focus on a range of skills — from soft to technical, such as leadership, sales and commercial capabilities, technology training and education, among others. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Builds leadership skills Encourages vision-setting, motivation, and team-building. He has disrupted multiple industriesautomobiles (Tesla), space travel (SpaceX), and even brain-computer interfaces (Neuralink). Invest in self-education and upskilling. Enhances problem-solving Helps tackle challenges creatively.

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