American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A number of tips and tools are presented that help small businesses better manage their cash flow. Improve Invoicing and Payment Collection Delayed payments from customers can disrupt your cash flow, making it harder to cover operational costs. Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king.

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StartupNation

MAY 22, 2025

Contingency Planning : Prepare for the most likely scenarios that would cause disruption and focus on robust backup systems. It is always great to have somebody who understands both the child and business growth phases.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 10, 2025

The award is presented to select vendors who successfully complete Intellyx’s rigorous selection process and deliver truly disruptive innovation in brand and […] REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

When Revolution Growth first invested in Sweetgreen in 2013, the whisperings of food and wellness were present but sparse, and the bulk of lunchtime options focused more on convenience than ingredients. an industry I deemed “ ripe for disruption ”?—?in What did we see in the then-regional salad company?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. The Disrupt agenda so far features more than 80 interviews, panel discussions, events and breakout sessions that span the startup tech spectrum… with more to come!

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Today is last day to cast your vote for Audience Choice roundtables and breakouts at Disrupt 2023. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda. Voting ends at 11:59pm PDT tonight.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A world-class tech conference like TechCrunch Disrupt — coming to you live and in person in San Francisco on October 18-20 — doesn’t just happen. They present sessions on a range of topics that help new founders gain the confidence they need to move forward and build a solid business foundation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

In early 2022, you may remember, we called for experts to submit applications to present breakout sessions and roundtable discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Audience Choice voting opens for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 It’s time to make your voice count!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt ! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. Disrupt Stage | 10:00 am. Disrupt Stage | 1:40 pm.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The ability to interact, transact and disrupt is an order of magnitude greater at broadband speeds than at 56k dial-up modem speeds. THAT is disruption. The video industry will be disrupted just as books, newspapers and music before it. Just how transformative is broadband? This never existed a decade ago. Morning in VC.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2023

Miranda Naiman, a 7-year EO Tanzania member and an unstoppable force for good, is the founder of Empower , a disruptive consulting firm that passionately provides talent, advisory and insight services to clients across the African continent. Love deeply, be truly present in your child’s company, and communicate intentionally.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

And if you want my presentation on the things I Effed Up at my first startup you can view or download the short PPT by clicking that link on Docstoc. 46:00 Do you believe that most of the disruption over the last few years has some from Elon Musk and Sebastian Thrun? Maybe the first step is talking openly about it.

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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. Here at TechCrunch, we’re big fans of startup competitions.

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UBI Global

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Journey through the 2019 global innovation community activities with UBI Global Join us as we present the 2019 year in review and examine the impactful collaborations that took place through business incubator and accelerator programs and their startup clients.

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UBI Global

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Journey through the 2019 global innovation community activities with UBI Global Join us as we present the 2019 year in review and examine the impactful collaborations that took place through business incubator and accelerator programs and their startup clients.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The technological basis for NFTs will unlock disruptive value systems across gaming, fashion, social and creator economies. In the absence of decentralization, disruption is stifled. On a less obvious note, coordination in large, decentralized groups (DAOs) will require streamlined frameworks and transparent value systems. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. In order to visualize how an audience will receive my presentation I have to be able to imagine the whole situation. Sometimes it is by presenting to my colleagues and debating.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Startup Alley is the place to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Part of that experience includes a series of master classes in the run-up to Disrupt. Now, we’re ready to share the next presentation, and it’s another great one, folks. TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

the customer on stage showing your product turns into an advocate or evangelist while the prospect is far more likely to be persuaded by a customer presentation than a salesperson’s pitch. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We've been hearing it a lot — this time in history presents a lot of opportunity for disruption. Disruption comes from this space. Disruptive Innovation. He coined the concept of disruptive innovation. All disruption is tech-based, and technology solutions and people are the foundation of all of this.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well. We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With a minimum investment of $7,000 and additional units in increments of $5,500, SDAC is ideal for new angel investors who want to gain hands-on experience and learn via workshops, meetings, and presentations. Passive investors can invest without attending meetings or participating in due diligence, or the voting process.

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Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2021

And like many other industries, “business as usual” has been completely disrupted by the coronavirus. Often, that’s because they are presenting something that has already been commoditized as a still-new innovation or they are trying to replicate a platform for a much more niche or verticalized market.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

You know they’ll bring the heat and present a finely tuned pitch. Its vision is to reimagine all the food products on supermarket shelves at scale using Charaka, to disrupt the way the world eats. Learn more about XTC here. And they’ll need it to impress this panel of judges — all of whom focus on sustainable impact.

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Revolution

JUNE 15, 2023

Scaling a national restaurant chain presents a longer list of challenges. So they kept their focus trained on meeting more people in more places — through digital innovation and geographic expansion — with food that fuels and connects. Balancing discipline with innovation: Running a restaurant is hard.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From highlighting potential returns and problems to starting your pitch with the customer’s story, these leaders shared their insights on how to effectively present your business ideas to potential investors. Present Information in a Structured Order Investors are creatures of habit. The key here is engagement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

This is Hopper’s second raise in a year that has been marked by turmoil for the travel industry, owing to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. And one that’s working really surprisingly well is the disruption insurance.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Now a young startup wants to disrupt that. At present, Peerlist does not have a model to generate revenues. I invested because this is the need of the hour for this industry, and timing is perfect for such disruption.” But as the platform grew, it shifted some focus to becoming another source of consuming and producing content.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

We’re talking more than 40 highly engaging presentations, workshops and roundtables with interactive Q&As and plenty of time for networking. Dayna will talk about how, beyond the idea, founders can pitch investors on their TAM, including how they will wedge into the market and how they will eventually disrupt it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Turnover disrupts the company’s operation, culture and growth trajectory. I know this from firsthand experience: Along with many wins there are some investments I wish I’d turned down. It’s a red flag that drama is consuming the company while its mission is mostly sidelined.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

Investor Expectations Many entrepreneurs fundraising for the first time, make the mistake of passionately focusing on their business idea’s features, instead of the compelling investment opportunity they are presenting to the investor that should not be missed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Still, while it might present a problem to other companies, Emetarom says the company has no issue training promising junior talent to grow in expertise. These engineers make up half of Appzone’s 150 employees and there are plans to double down on this number. Like most Nigerian startups these days, Appzone is big on senior engineers.

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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.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Presently, Brian has launched Crypto VCF and is Co-GP in it’s Blockchain Opportunity Fund. Blockchain is already disrupting numerous industries and I expect that to continue at greater speed over the next 5 years. He is an experienced technology consultant with a keen eye for scaling profitable companies in a variety of industries.

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