This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What areas need to be disrupted? 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas are going to change?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

A little startup by the name of Dropbox competed in the Battlefield at TC50 (the precursor to Disrupt) way back in 2008. TechCrunch is on the hunt for innovative, game-changing startups to take the Startup Battlefield challenge and wrangle with the best-of-the-best at TC Disrupt 2021 in September. Are you game?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, will be joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 taking place September 21-23 to help judge the startups competing in Startup Battlefield. Join us at Disrupt this September and get your t icket for under $100 for a limited time!

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. 6/15/2008 – Application network of its own apps plus agency business plus ad network.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

And we will see legacy applications embrace AI to make their products better and to remain competitive with the AI-first disrupters. But like web3 before it and the internet before that, this new technology will bring litigation and regulatory scrutiny that will raise, and ultimately resolve many important issues.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

He has disrupted multiple industriesautomobiles (Tesla), space travel (SpaceX), and even brain-computer interfaces (Neuralink). Risk-Taking: He reinvested his entire PayPal earnings (~$180M) into Tesla and SpaceX, nearly going bankrupt in 2008. Problem-Solving: He tackles big problems (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Both Dropbox and SendDoc participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with Houston debuting Dropbox in 2008 at the TechCrunch 50, the original name of the event. Meanwhile, DocSend participated in 2014 at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City. PandaDoc is another competitor in this space.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

This negative externality is unique to financial services and was particularly obvious in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The scope of the liquidity infusion has been massive even by the 2008 standard. billion recapitalization (bailout) under the supervision of the Federal Reserve.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that. He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. In the past decade, we lived through an unprecedented run of optimism and climbing valuations, and the gut check we’re seeing now has been long in coming.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

For Tom Patterson, CEO of the men’s underwear startup Tommy John , disrupting a saturated industry meant solving problems people came to believe they just had to live with. “In In 2008, I was a medical device salesman frustrated with the fabric, fit and functionality of my undergarments,” says Patterson.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Originally from Munich, Germany, the company has been around since 2008 — Schufa acquired a majority stake in finAPI in 2019. This is a hugely exciting milestone for Yapily on our journey from disruptive startup to ambitious scale-up. FinAPI is also an open banking provider.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

The main reason is tech disruption, or the introduction of a new technology to market that renders all previous products obsolete. . But while tech disruption is nothing new — it’s been with us since the industrial revolution — the pace of technology adoption has increased sharply over the years. But wait, there’s more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“We believe the timing is perfect for the birth of Plugo as the e-commerce landscape is experiencing turbulence that will nurture positive disruption, benefiting both aspirational sellers and consumers,” said Charles Rim, founding and general partner at Access Ventures, said in a statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

” I suspect that over the next 18 months, they’ll see another phenomenon that they likely haven’t seen since 2008-09: mark-downs of the VCs’ portfolios. Any correction will be followed by the long march of technology disruption and the profits disproportionally allocated to the winners.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 20, 2023

Basil, that was founded in 2008, is a private equity firm that invests in niche technologies disrupting the IT services space. CSP has so far made over $500 million in investments in cross-border businesses with multinational operations since its inception, the company said in its statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. The Harvard College and Harvard Business school graduate founded LearnVest in 2008 with the goal of helping people make progress on their money.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

We elevated the business value to new heights in 2008 and yet I was powerless to stop the carnage as it plummeted to earth a few years later due to errant decision making. As the business grows, however, some of those differences can become major disruptions. If you must have growth capital, there are only a few ways to acquire it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Pula is one of the few African startups disrupting the farming industry with technology. Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

7 investors explain why they’re all in Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 Image Credits: Uber (opens in a new window) The word “disruptive” gets thrown around so much, it’s lost much of its impact.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

The winner will get a feature article on TechCrunch.com, one-year free subscription to Extra Crunch and a complimentary Founder Pass to TechCrunch Disrupt this fall. Shardul joined Index in 2008. TechCrunch Early Stage Part Two is set to be a game-changer for founders looking to take their startups to the next level.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A classically trained pastry chef, Christina Tosi spent years in New York City restaurants before founding Milk Bar in 2008. Christina Tosi / Milk Bar. Combining her high-end culinary skills with creative ingredients from the cereal aisle, Tosi created sweet culinary hits like Cereal Milk and Crack Pie.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 7, 2019

Since 2008, OCAST’s budget has been cut by nearly 40 percent — from about $22 million down to $13.4 At this moment, if we want to seize the opportunity, we need to invest in these activities that advance the application of our state’s research and development to local companies that create high paying jobs.

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Haystack

JUNE 25, 2018

4/ 2008 Feels Like 3 Decades Ago – This isn’t fair to AppNexus at all, because a $1.6B+ exit is huge stuff, but it is a long time ago, and the way news cycles move today, feels eons ago; additionally, in the wake of $7.5B at the right time across both broadband and mobile networks.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 9, 2022

While Terra’s crash disrupted crypto markets, it didn’t affect the wider mainstream financial sector, but that won’t stop regulators from seeing this as a huge red flag.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And particularly the effects of that we saw in 2008 when the most vulnerable jobs were destroyed overnight — and they were counted by tens of thousands. ” “The ultimate goal of the Spain entrepreneurial nation strategy is turning Spain into a country that is able to avoid the effects of different crises.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

Trevor started his career in consumer electronics in 2008, at a small startup in San Francisco called JOBY. We bring to market DISRUPTIVE brands that come into existing categories and shake things up; offering consumers a better, healthier, sustainable option. global revenue. What are your future plans for your startup?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform. And this is my third SaaS company.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

But startups are all about disrupting industry standards. They launched SEMrush at the height of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. YouTube is the world’s second-most visited website (after Google), and people watch more than a billion hours of content on the platform daily. So give your inner voice the microphone this year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

The capital markets have boosted these types of startups, helping them raise huge amounts of capital at attractive prices, and disrupt massive markets. In 2008, the Fed Funds Rate sat at 5%. But over the next 5-10 years, the cost of startup capital will increase for three reasons. Today it’s between 0.25-0.5%.

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Source Link

MARCH 24, 2020

These are all emotions I vividly recall from June of 2008. No service disruptions have been recorded, and our help desk is being monitored by both email help@joinsourcelink.com and hotline at 844-804-8775. During that time, I served as a small business development center consultant at the University of Northern Iowa.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. Its founder, Rich Barton , knew he wanted to disrupt the real estate space, and deliberately baked a unique user acquisition strategy into his initial product strategy. Not something that's simply lumped on after the fact.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 25, 2015

Since my co-founders and I started Invoca in 2008, my role as founder-CEO has broadened from proving a concept and building a team to managing personnel and scaling operations. It’s also made harder by the fact that the process is kept private from nearly everyone in order to avoid disruption.

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