Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition. 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. No Dave S. =

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Entrepreneurs must be creative enough to innovate, disciplined enough to stay focused, resourceful enough to do more with less, and bold enough to take calculated risks. Creativity & Innovation Thinking outside the box to develop unique products, services, or business models. Why Is an Entrepreneurial Mindset Important?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2024

The exceptional company always tries to think about what is the best, most efficient, or most creative way to surprise its customer. If you’re smart enough and think differently enough, you can disrupt your own concept and industry. Happiness is spreading positive energy, enthusiasm, and inspiration to everyone around you.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

He was a creative director who had been experimenting with drones (and crashing them) for recording video footage who then got into repairing them. He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As That’s the thing, too… He wasn’t just some random guy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

While I’m all for entrepreneurial energy, I do wonder how this maps out with the larger conversation of growth-stage startups realizing they need to buckle down and focus. TechCrunch Disrupt is next week, somehow. Remember that you can use code “STARTUPS” for a special reader discount for Disrupt tickets. A few notes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Indeed, as of 2019, before the temporary COVID disruption, the result was the largest number of jobs at the highest wages and the highest levels of material living standards in the history of the planet. Energy Energy is life. We believe energy should be in an upward spiral. It serves us. All the machines work for us.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

From that frenetic creativity came the company’s distinctive mascot: a childish and rebellious evergreen-colored owl named Duo. Angry Birds was no longer the only popular game on mobile, and video games generally were getting more engaging, with in-app currencies, progress bars and an experience that felt creatively addictive.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Boston-based AppMap , going through TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield this week, wants to stop this bad code from ever making it into production. We spend a lot of time and energy instrumenting things that are downstream of our application, but we’ve never instrumented the creative process.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Celina Mikolajczak, vice president, battery technology, Panasonic Energy of North America, Panasonic. Take it from Rachael Wilcox, creative producer at Volvo Cars, who completed a TechCrunch hat trick in 2020 by attending Disrupt, TC Sessions: Robotics/AI and TC Sessions: Mobility.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

First, TechCrunch Disrupt will be in person this year, and today is the last day to raise your hand to speak. Sunny days are here again : India’s SolarSquare has raised $4 million to accelerate the country’s move toward clean energy. It’s Friday, June 10, 2022, and Haje is on the road, so it’s just me today.

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

With so many changes and challenges during the last year of the pandemic, from shortages of consumer goods to moving life online, the tech industry has been more important than ever in providing creative solutions. Lab-produced and plant-based food is disrupting a $6 trillion global food industry. These are the top ten tech trends: 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2016

Within the context of organization leadership, the word “alignment” means all team members are clearly on the same page and moving forward in one direction with focus and energy. Imagine, instead, all that could (and will) be achieved if that time and energy are focused on your go-forward plan.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

“Priority tasks should consist of setting up a growth tech stack, creating a testing roadmap to find the most efficient growth levers, and robust creative and copy testing in the first 90 days.” Battery startups are working to disrupt more than just cars and trucks. Image Credits: Bill Hinton / Getty Images.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. Cities need to be ready to harness this creative energy as part of their response plans. Additionally, with crisis comes opportunity.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

But throw in a global pandemic and the disrupting realities of life and that challenge gets amplified exponentially. Navigating so many life-disrupting changes in such a short amount of time really took a toll. Spend your time on things that give you energy. That all supposes you have enough ingredients to keep on cooking.”.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Through knowledge sharing and funding, the program cultivates a thriving ecosystem for changemakers to accelerate impact and deliver initiatives at the intersection of sport, equity and creativity for Black and Latinx communities. . Earlier this year, adidas announced its newest program, Cultivate & B.L.O.O.M., IG: @lets.do.wrk.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Eflex Intelligent digital energy for homes and small business 2020 Lumme Lumme Health is a digital behavioral health company with a radically superior approach to facilitating success with weight management and problematic eating patterns. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Green Garage is run at about 10% of the waste, energy and water of a traditional office space. SpaceLab Detroit is another coworking space in Detroit that focuses within a particular area, building community and running programming around tech, innovation, disruption and creativity. Green Garage Detroit. SpaceLab Detroit.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

A startup is seeded by the financial and validating optimism of bringing the next great idea, killer product, or market-disrupting service to the world. However, even the most ardent realists need the unemotional advice of a mentor who’s not wrapped up in startup energy. So, we didn’t grow as fast as we could have.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Find the right traits The goal is to attract a true digital talent who is an expert in delivering digital results within the development, data, or even disruption. Because the subject is so enormously dynamic, receptivity and creativity tend to be additional typical traits of a successful digital talent. Buckle up.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 13, 2019

When a new CEO or manager is hired into a company, for a while lots of energy flows from the top and new ideas seem to be generated daily. But that normalcy often comes inside a creative vacuum. Accept the “Conlin” challenge: Disrupt yourself. The worrying that always precedes a change. There is nothing wrong with consistency.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

” She also points to the EU’s commitment, over ten years, to put €10 billion into investing in scale up companies across the bloc as an opportunity for EsTech to lean out towards regional policies as well as inwards to make the case for disruptive business models locally. How Europe has expanded its bid to disrupt Big Tech.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. The firm supports dynamic entrepreneurs building disruptive companies in a broad range of industries, including consumer services and products, technology, healthcare, business services, education, and financial services.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The plates were a market ripe for disruption.” We put our energy there because we had initial conversations with other players who wanted to get involved once we had 50% of the driving population.” That means that you could use that real estate to do a lot of really creative things.” In the U.S.,

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Your energy, your focus, your enthusiasm, your strengths, and even your weaknesses are what make your business unique. It teaches us resilience in the face of adversity, creativity in problem-solving, and the power of unwavering determination. By implementing S.M.A.R.T. Derek Colvin , Attorney, Waldrop & Colvin

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Carey’s expertise lies in transforming visionary ideas into tangible solutions, using disruptive technology to elevate startups from inception to industry leaders. Firstly, it’s the team I’m working with; their dedication, creativity, and expertise are invaluable. Embrace simplicity in every aspect of your business.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry. Renewable energy requires better management solutions, and that’s exactly what SkySpecs provides. And we know renewable energy is the future, so we’re looking forward to seeing what SkySpecs does in 2021. Groundspeed.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2022

And we believe that creators will disrupt education,” Yassin says. “We Creative startups are flourishing by building custom-made, virtual worlds for clients. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nas Academy engages top web influencers to lead courses in content creation, crypto and Web3, and business and entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I recently joined a WhatsApp chat called “Nomads in Miami” that includes a variety of intellectually curious people from all walks of life (from creatives, to entrepreneurs, to traditional professionals) who are either temporarily in Miami this winter or have made a permanent move to South Florida. David Goldberg, general partner, Alpaca.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Our Next Energy. Our Next Energy , or ONE, is a next-gen battery tech startup in Detroit that is creating better, safer, more efficient batteries for the future of electric vehicles. Our Next Energy recently raised $25 million and is backed by BMW, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos. Apply now to Autobooks. They recently closed a $4.3

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 24, 2025

With this substantial infusion of capital, Good Good Golf is set to expand its presence across digital content, commerce, and live experiences, further entrenching itself as a disruptive force in the modern golf landscape. Their content is fun and creative, and I’m hoping they can help me lower my golf score, Manning said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I wanted to give our LPs a more tangible sense of the amazing inspiration & energy that we feel in working with our portfolio company founders by having them actually interact with each other rather than just see a few talking heads. We bill it as a mixture of the best of what LA has to offer: Creativity, Startups and Capital.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

Apart from fueling our bodies and reproducing, what’s the point of existence if we can’t enjoy the art that the creatives amongst us produce? NFTs will not perish, and their disruption to the economics of culture will be profound. Contrary to popular belief, NFTs? Juicy the markets, both employment and financial, will win votes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And so it sort of harnesses the creativity of, you know, thousands of years of human authors and artists and then sort of, derives, you know, new kinds of answers or new kinds of images or whatever. Tyler: So how much more green energy do we need to, in essence, fuel all of this AI, and where will it come from? Marc: Yeah. Marc: Yeah.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Among the trends our survey respondents identified were e-commerce, blockchain and crypto, healthtech, energy, mobility and climate. We focus on technology companies and are industry agnostic in general, but in Oslo we have a particular focus on startups within the energy, property and mobility sector. and Nomono.

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