Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. But every time I talk with senior executives a the big studios or talent agencies I tell the same story, “You know that your industry is being disrupted.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. You may hire a superstar, but if they are not a cultural fit then s/he can become very disruptive to the team. Because you put ads in front of user for a long time and cover the whole screen Meebo click-rates are very high.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. The creativity of UK entrepreneurs has and will continue to disrupt the status quo in financial services. To do this, it played to its structural strengths: The UK was an early adopter of fintech infrastructure. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. The combination of these factors makes Brazil an especially attractive market for Cora to launch in and disrupt,” Kostov told TechCrunch. This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The company has been growing revenues and customers at a rate of 50% over the last 10 years (and 63% over the past 15 — it’s been around since 2005), and it now has 1,700 employees with plans to add another 1,000 this year. Billings are expected to be €160 million in 2021. Sikkens is joining the board with this round.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Sonos began as a disruptive startup in 2005 with its groundbreaking patented innovation in wireless speakers. The story of Google’s abuse of Sonos is one of the more telling ones. Sonos is a classic American success story, and Google’s piracy of its technology is a tragedy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Now, everyone sees Google as this huge company with endless products and expansive teams, but back in 2005 when I worked there, it didn’t seem like a megacompany. One lesson — which was especially true at Amex — is to always be prepared for shifting markets that may disrupt your business.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Something disruptive. We scheduled an initial production run for early April 2005, since it was going to take a while to get everything lined up. While those things were certainly true, there was another fundamental reason I didn’t pick up on any of the tech offers. It would mean doing something I already knew how to do.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

I started my first company when I was 23; a real estate company in Phoenix, AZ in 2005. We bring to market DISRUPTIVE brands that come into existing categories and shake things up; offering consumers a better, healthier, sustainable option. Thank you so much for joining us! What motivated you to launch your startup?

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OkDork

JULY 23, 2022

YouTube only launched in 2005 and Instagram was founded in 2010 too, so the kind of content being posted on social media was nothing like it is today. Tom and his co-founders didn’t have any experience in the food industry and yet they were still able to majorly disrupt it. Keep in mind that this was happening in 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

And no prizes for guessing who would benefit if this order was disrupted. The arguments “for” of many market participants ring as hollow as they did in 2005 when they told me I was an idiot for believing that Florida real estate prices would drop or in the dotcom 1.0 So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Launched by startup SmartLabs in 2005, Insteon at one point had an agreement with Microsoft to sell its kits at Microsoft Store locations and was one of the two launch partners for Apple’s HomeKit platform, with the HomeKit-enabled Insteon Hub Pro. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Kitty Hawk.

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