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Collaborative Disruption at the DoD with Kathleen Hicks and Sharon Weinberger

Andreessen Horowitz

First of all, I think it’s about our 165th attack on us using those sorts of techniques, largely UAS, but a variety of techniques. Without the budget, it’s very, very hard for us. We are using everything we have. How does that actually look in terms of a successful change in strategy? Kathleen: Sure.

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Heyday raises $555M to buy up and scale more D2C brands in the Amazon marketplace universe

TechCrunch

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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WaitWhat raises $12M to double down on what comes after podcasts

TechCrunch

Maybe in-car calls need to be disrupted soon, too). Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. But we have found ways to use our fundraising rounds to leap us forward on diversity — in a few different ways.”

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Lessons Learned, Experience Gained: Ruminations on Mark Small’s Journey from Salesperson to Sales…

Jason Malki

Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies. It was revolutionary and completely disrupted the way legal research was done. How did you break into your tech career?

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History of The MP3

Unvalidated Learnings

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. These were the knob-twiddling soundboard jockeys who actually mixed the albums. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Daily Crunch: The party’s over — Airbnb bans all disruptive gatherings in perpetuity

TechCrunch

The headline speaks for itself : Mike scored a home run with his headline for a story about four European founders turned angel investors who are giving some of their venture capital firm competitors — many they say have not operated a company before — a run for their money. Startups and VC. Vice no more? :

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Inbal Perlman , partner, TAU Ventures. Dror Nahumi , partner, Norwest Venture Partners. Sharin Fisher , partner, Fort Ross Ventures. Tal Slobodkin , partner, StageOne Ventures . Natalie Refuah , partner, Viola Growth.

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