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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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. million.

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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. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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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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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. Tech companies of the last few decades have largely focused on industries that can easily be networked and analyzed as a bit-stream (media, finance, etc).

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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. We’ve taken a ‘network’ approach to our expansion efforts — similar to what some major e-commerce companies have capitalized on with local distribution centers,” Haller said. “By

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Sarah Tavel is a general partner at Benchmark, where she invests in network effect businesses with a focus on marketplaces and social, as well as cryptocurrency.

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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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Haystack

JUNE 25, 2018

AT&T’s logic is that these new generations are mobile-first, so if they buy an AT&T network phone, that is potentially extensible at home into a new service relationship around live and premium television content. at the right time across both broadband and mobile networks.

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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 The Oklahoma Innovation Model attracts and unites scientific researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs and manufactures. million, which means almost $8 million less a year goes into priming Oklahoma’s STEM-based economy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

He highlights a couple of priority projects: One to create a network to link entrepreneurs and policymakers with the wider ecosystem, and another to connect incubators and accelerators to build out a national support network for founders — both of which have been inspired by approaches taken in other European countries.

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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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Source Link

MARCH 24, 2020

These are all emotions I vividly recall from June of 2008. It is our job for the next few months to empower this network, amplify your impact and for us to collectively champion one another. During that time, I served as a small business development center consultant at the University of Northern Iowa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Samsung wants you to have that crystal-clear smartphone communication in places where there is no cellular network connectivity, so it developed its own satellite-based solution, Ivan writes. Goin’ retro, with a 15-year-old pitch deck : Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008 , by Haje. Sarah has more.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

These include small manufacturers, not-for-profit organizations, and mom-and-pop companies without a lot of budgets to combat security threats and avoid business disruption. Contributor : Ron Pelletier is the original Founder of Pondurance , having started the company from his basement in 2008.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

And basic searches on the Micromax brand on Google from 2008 — its first year in mobile — lay bare the general decline in chatter about the company. Founded in 2000 by Vikas Jain, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Kumar Arora and Rajesh Agarwal, Micromax first started life as a small IT firm, making its first move into phones only in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. 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. It was September 2008.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

The company based in Lagos, Nigeria, was founded by Emeka Emetarom , Obi Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008. First, the company says it created the world’s first decentralised payment processing network. But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up.

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