Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For today, we’ll refer to them simply as “studios.” With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years. Studios are causing this precise disruption to the traditional ways of building companies and how to invest in them. Y-Combinator: 2,000+ Exit: Idealab: 35%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. Over the years, the angel network has based its infrastructure on syndicates — investment vehicles that allow investors, referred to as backers, to co-invest with prominent investors — known as leaders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In an era where Amazon has become so dominant in the retailing and delivery of physical and digital content are there strategies that can succeed? The founder of Parachute, Ariel Kaye , had a clear vision for what she wanted to disrupt and how she thought she could do it. Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

One thing that recruited me was this brilliance that we can kill two birds with one stone,” she said, referring to Duolingo’s original translation-service business model we talked about in part one of this EC-1. “It It was obviously tied to Luis’ thinking and reCAPTCHA and it was magical and brilliant.”.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. When our initial customer acquisition costs were higher than expected, we shared this openly along with our strategy to address it. Finally, be transparent about challenges. The outcome?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today, it’s announcing some funding to capitalize on that, a reminder of how disruption is always around the corner. They include Figma’s former COO (and current VSCO president) Eric Wittman, Cisco’s VP of developer relations strategy Grace Francisco and Google’s “Fonts leader” Dave Crossland.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. Certain late-stage VCs have invested in some of my past funds, partly to motivate us to refer future investment opportunities to them. Refer a startup, get $2,500”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. Once again, adopting a local strategy and community building proved vital to the seemingly modest but explosive growth it experienced in a market no company had really tested.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. What is unique about their strategy is how they leveraged LPs to push the industry toward adopting their offerings.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Heyday competes against a large field of startups also raising huge amounts of money to follow their own Amazon marketplace roll-up strategies. As a point of reference, Thrasio is now valued at about $5 billion; Razor Group out of Berlin was valued at over $1 billion last week ; and Perch also is now in the nine-figure range.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Armed with a handful of patents and some cool reference speakers (i.e. We believe the latter, in particular, will really disrupt the market. None of them have seen anything like this before — this is truly disruptive innovation.” If say, an Echo Dot can have the same sound as the Sonos One, or a soundbar.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Although that component of the España Nación Emprendedora strategy is, inevitably, going to be a slower burn, hence the decade-long lens. Although that component of the España Nación Emprendedora strategy is, inevitably, going to be a slower burn, hence the decade-long lens. Do you think the CES critique has any important points?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

They all refer to the Hola! Four guys (two techs and two non-tech) decided to disrupt the dating app market. Self-reflection This strategy was a mistake. Our strategy should have been to run something first and then polish the product model, but prejudice prevailed. We started the project in Spring 2021.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Teams looking to transition to hybrid work should poll their employees and design a strategy that best suits them. Members frequently collaborate, hire one another or refer work through our community. This) often leads to business development for our members,” Lewan said. It’s not just a space. SpaceLab Detroit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Interestingly, prior to joining Index, Fiorentino helped build and lead business strategy and finance at Stripe from 2015 to 2019. Join us at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco this September as we explore the impact of fintech on our world today. Fintech projected to become a $1.5

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

This is the set of slides you’ll find in those references. You are pivoting the direction of the story, you are disrupting the current status quo, and the possibilities are endless. I’ve seen it used to refer to a sales deck. You could even use it to refer to a movie pitch. What’s going on?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

How to kickstart your AI automation strategy Automate intelligently with Zapier What is AI automation? AI automation (sometimes referred to as intelligent automation) combines automation technologies with artificial intelligence (AI) to create systems that tackle complex work by learning, adapting, and making smart decisions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Update : PitchBook is “plain wrong,” Zapp VP of strategy Steve O’Hear tells us. We believe in customer experience, a supply chain that delivers much better products and on time, and an assortment that is relevant to convenience, more than trying to disrupt the weekly shop.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

According to data gathered by Rob Olson, partner and head of data strategy at venture engine M13, startups that have two or more experienced founders tend to exit 33% faster and raise 34% less capital. When a company chooses supervised learning, it needs to have a strategy that allows it to label data as quickly as it acquires it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

. “There will be more change in the next five to 10 years than in the past 100 years, Borus said, referring to the shift to autonomous vehicles and other changes in the transportation industry. Borus told TechCrunch that he believes trucking will be among the first sectors to be disrupted by autonomous vehicle technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

For a point of reference, the last time we reported the number was at the time of a $35 million funding round in 2019, when it noted that it had over 100,000 across 70 countries.). . “We expect our revenue and listings under management to continue to double year-over-year, both in 2022 and 2023,” Soto told me.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

In i2e1, though I was hired as a UX designer, I collaborated with other teammates and took care of the branding, print design, offline and online marketing collaterals, marketing strategy, pitch presentations, and more. Entrepreneurial and leadership mindset Another important aspect! Choose your startup wisely, and don’t be afraid.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

An inside view of another company’s challenges and opportunities, its peaks and valleys, what strategies worked and didn’t, has revealed insights I’ve ended up applying at my own company. Because of digital disruption, businesses must move at an unprecedented pace to stay competitive. Serving on a board can prevent myopia.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The driving force of economic growth for the US is gains in productivity driven by calculated risk-takers, passionate entrepreneurs and disruptive innovation. We strive to educate our community that success takes commitment, strategy, discipline, and patience to sustain the journey and see long-term growth. Eric Parker. Mara Hardy.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The tourism industry, for instance, is leading the way by placing CO2 neutral solutions and sustainable travel at the center of their strategy. Going Net Zero refers to “the balance between the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted by human activity and the amount removed from the atmosphere through mitigating actions”, says Goodwings.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. option grants). Mixed messages.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

He highlights two examples of successful M&A strategies: Outside Inc.’s I’ve always had an interest in the origin of words: We use “bellwether” as a term to describe trendsetters, but it originally referred to a sheep with a bell tied around its neck, which encouraged the rest of the flock to follow.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Collab Capital.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Collab Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. But in retrospect, doing everything wrong was exactly the right strategy — a fact that’s just now becoming apparent. WordPress, though, was still referred to as a “hobby.” billion valuation. Image Credits: TechCrunch. ” The good side of spam.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The documents, which include 83,000 emails and 1,000 other files including conversations, reveal for the first time Uber’s $90 million-a-year lobbying and public relations campaigns to gain the support of world leaders, such as French President Emmanuel Macron, in order to disrupt Europe’s taxi industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

If the deal is from out of your geography and/or out of your focus area or a deal is being referred by a well-know investor who normally co-invests with similar syndicates – at least ask yourself, “Why am I so lucky to be getting this call.” I wrote here about why I avoid party rounds. Avoid the herd.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. The company had been in talks to raise a whopping $1.2 billion from Alibaba. of its phones in India.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

In a casino, the term “rake” refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. The most dangerous strategy for any platform company is to price too high – to charge a greedy and overzealous rake that could serve to undermine the whole point of having a platform in the first place.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. And no prizes for guessing who would benefit if this order was disrupted. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

They refer to the experience as “an inflection point.”. Many a great strategy has died on the shelf. They’d won a few industry awards. The PE firm owners and leadership team used the strategic action plan that emerged from the formula to monitor and evaluate progress in quarterly meetings. The only common thread is complexity.

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