Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

In fact, damage to reputation and brand has moved up to #4 from #6 in the Top 10 risks identified in Aon’s 2013 Global Risk Management Risk Ranking , moving ahead of business interruption and failure to innovate to meet customer needs in 2011. The Internet has been a powerful and disruptive technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt. It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 22, 2024

The Thiel Foundation continues its commitment to innovation and disruption achieved by bright young minds, outside of academic studies, by announcing its 2024 class of Thiel Fellows. The latest cohort joins 270 alumni of the program that began in 2011.

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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. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF). More posts by this contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. We want to change the local mindset when it comes to education.”.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

Plains Venture Partners is a growth-oriented venture fund focused on investing in entrepreneurs and technologies with a strong potential for disruption. The Accelerate Oklahoma Fund was created in 2011 by i2E to invest in Oklahoma-based startups and is managed by iMCI. About Linear Health Sciences. Founded by Ryan Dennis, M.D.,

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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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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. Even the most amazing disruptive game-changing plans have competition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. You’re strengthening communities through an innovative approach to education.

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Revolution

JANUARY 9, 2019

And while conventional wisdom suggests that to work in an innovative and cutting-edge environment you had to move to places like San Francisco or New York City, Revolution-backed companies are proving that some of the country’s most interesting and successful are based in other cities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. We’re making a mark through disruptive change, but we realize we can’t compete with the 25,000 schools throughout South Africa alone. You’re strengthening communities through an innovative approach to education.

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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. “People have tried to apply fixes to that state rather than being innovative and finding a new approach.” Athos is a repeat backer: It also invested in an earlier $2.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Sure, Essential was entering a mature and oversaturated market, but the Playground-backed startup was doing so with $330 million in funding, a team of top industry executives and some genuinely innovative ideas.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

The resulting herd mentality hurts innovation and leads to suboptimal returns. By comparison, when oil prices doubled between 2009 and 2011, it created stress for some industries, but there was no concern that the global economy would collapse. Money managers can earn more money at less personal risk than in most other industries.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. Led by charismatic chairman Dr Kira Radinsky, the company is described by the Israel Innovation Authority as “the most prominent company in the Israeli healthcare ecosystem.” billion in 2011. Ripple: Disrupting the non-dairy milk market – Forbes. “We

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GCUC

AUGUST 9, 2019

Locally and globally, we are a community of forward thinkers, innovators and game changers paving the way for the future of work. While we are collaborating, conspiring and disrupting the CRE and design markets, we are building a platform for change. This is big-time stuff, if you really think about it. That is freaking epic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 and became a finalist in the competition. How it works. Keep Technology’s Knight device connects to the OBD port in a vehicle. But the website crashed the day before American Inventor aired. CodeGuard partnered with Cloudflare shortly after and was acquired in 2018 by Sectigo.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In Singapore , the Ministry of Trade and Industry re-defined the definition of SMEs in 2011. Innovation: A unique feature of a startup is disruptive innovation. Startups create new offerings or innovate the existing ones, while SMEs deal with existing offerings. Characteristics of SMEs. Did we miss something?

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GCUC

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In 2011, I called Adam Neumann of WeWork and invited him to come to Austin for the very first GCUC conference. The real estate industry was ripe for a disruption that put the people’s needs before the landlords. Coworking is that disruption. He agreed and came to Link Coworking (my brand, which I have since sold) in Austin.

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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. Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up.

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OurCrowd

JULY 2, 2020

The economic disruption caused by COVID-19 is the worst recession the world has seen in nearly a century. At the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference , Alec Ellison, Chairman of OurCrowd US, sat down with three world-class investors to discuss their perspective on the coronavirus recession, caused by the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

In August of 2011, he and his team had built JOBY gto be the #1 Camera Tripod (stability) brand in the world and successfully sold JOBY to the Daymen Group in Petaluma, CA; who were the owners of the world’s largest camera bag brand by revenue and volume, LowePro. global revenue. While managing Sales + Strategy over the last 5.5

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. B) That the people who are trying to profit off innovation--the entrepreneurs and VCs--for whom there is no criteria to try your hand at it, are generally sucking at it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

But issues around pricing, flexibility to innovate and a lack of local tech support always come up. In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions. Today, the company is announcing that it has closed $10 million in Series A investment. This is where Appzone has found its sweet spot.

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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. Tijani is the co-founder and CEO of Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), a pan-African innovation hub with offices in Lagos and Nairobi. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Under Thoma Bravo, they had made several new acquisitions that increased their scale since going private in 2011. Still, if your start-up operation manages to align itself with the immediate needs of the marketplace, to the point that it disrupts reigning trends, there’s a very strong chance you’ll appeal to investors, as well.

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