TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Launched in 2017, Station F is a massive building that used to be a rail freight depot. Finally, the program is based on peer-to-peer feedback. But the most powerful peer-to-peer component is that you have to give feedback to people when you’re going through the program. That’s why Station F is launching Launch.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a consumer-focused financial platform—that is also now the primary bank account for millions of UK consumers—in the midst of a once in a century pandemic is close to impossible. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. This did not happen by magic. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Blue Line: Barclays Hedge-Fund Industry; 2017 . “ One summer day, probably in the 1870s, friends of a major short-seller got together on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, where they admired the enormous yachts of New York’s richest brokers. If investors complained about Wall Street 80 years ago, they’re howling now.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 12, 2022

Between 2017 and 2021, the crypto market registered meteoric growth, pushing its aggregate market capitalization past the $2 trillion mark. It is, in fact, one of the biggest and most disruptive trends in the blockchain ecosystem. DeFi is an umbrella term that describes a range of peer-to-peer (P2P) financial services.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

For a startup to exist, you should have a disruptive idea, the right investor, and unique positioning. You not only have to be an innovator but also a leader if you want to succeed in the startup ecosystem. But more than that, you need to be an exceptional leader to lead the startup and make it stay in the market for long.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

The company claims that this approach means that organizations can then “peer into” their workforce’s security behavior, culture and risk reporting to preempt security problems and track improvements over time. In other words, it uses behavioral science and data analytics to help employees be more cybersecurity aware.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We knew we had found a market niche when this platform also met the needs of our peers. Fraud continues to be a major issue in the world of digital transactions, a situation that research shows was only compounded in the last 20 months of online activity growing as a result of COVID-19.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

“Company disrupted an existing industry with a new business model, has been doing well for a while, and is now raising more money to do more of the same, except more” is hard to tell a compelling story around. Especially when that — albeit with slightly smaller numbers — was also the story back in 2017.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a consumer-focused financial platform—that is also now the primary bank account for millions of UK consumers—in the midst of a once in a century pandemic is close to impossible. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. Banking is a ubiquitous but hard to crack industry.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable. This is one of the insights that Laura Behrens Wu drew out of Mittal during a FundersClub Facebook Live discussion on March 30, 2017.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. (written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. The reality is that cryptocurrencies can be both and can be liberating and corrupting at the same time.

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