Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). It took 3-4 months into the development of the product for Hashable to realize that it is a mobile first, web second service. This feature is in development right now. The secret to the software sales process.

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Feedough

MARCH 1, 2021

While all disruptive high-growth businesses can be termed startups, it’s still a heterogeneous group with subtypes characterised by the industry served, market disrupted, funding raised, motive, and valuation. The space exploration market existed but was largely untapped before SpaceX disrupted the functioning of the market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

” Ibex Investors , which is based in Denver with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, was founded in 2003 with a “multi-stage” and “multi-strategy” investment strategy. 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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. Back in 2003, that was the context for the so-called weblog, which would shortly be elided to blog. Nevertheless, his post got the attention of a few other developers and the group set out to create the open source WordPress project , focused on blog publishing.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. Apprentiscope ApprentiScope is transforming workforce development in the United States by making modern Registered Apprenticeships scalable. New England Breath Technologies Developing pain-free ketone and diabetes monitor.

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