Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Document management? Of course the taxi lobby and its cozy relationship with local government will never let a business like Uber exist! It’s been tried for 10 years with minimal success. I can’t see how DropBox or Box break out of this mold. Disappearing messages? Facebook already has critical mass.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The service can scan public sources including news publications, blogs, and SEC filings to gauge consumer sentiment, for example, or predict how supply chain disruptions might impact a business.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

The AI “stack” has emerged with Large Language Models and other important models (like audio, imagery, video, etc) operating in the cloud with well-documented and supported APIs that are available to developers to build on. Let’s start with Artificial intelligence (AI) which was the big event in 2023.

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Gust

MAY 29, 2012

This year for every plan that really looks like it might be disruptive or game changing I saw 20 or so that claimed to be. . Even the most amazing disruptive game-changing plans have competition. Bonus point) Don’t let the document get in the way. Don’t push adjectives. Let me assign my own. Tell stories.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Others not only survived the disruption, but thrived. So, make a point to check in with your salespeople on a regular basis, and document your findings so you can pick up on patterns in your customers’ comments. Many companies couldn’t withstand the shock of the pandemic and the economic havoc it wrought.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

It is the same movie I saw 10 years ago when every VC would say to me, “yeah, I get that you’re an online document sharing service, but what’s going to happen when Microsoft enters the market? He really does have a great vision in a market that will undoubted be disrupted. They risk little but of course knew better all along.

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Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Document your company’s superpower, competitive advantages, and other assets. (D)emand: One idea protecting them from new low-cost competitors and high-tech disrupters alike. Senior leadership should clearly define the Objective of innovation and summarize the company’s current Strategic Priorities. (A)ssets:

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2021

” It’s a matter-of-fact document, aiming to emphasize the importance of community in building a forward-looking startup, while highlighting the concept’s elasticity. But if I’ve learned anything from moderating said Disrupt panels, it’s that there’s no easy answer to the question, due in part to the aforementioned elasticity.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 7, 2023

The funds will be used to introduce a digital platform that aims to revolutionize document management and bill payments in Southeast Asia. A Unified Digital Platform The OneView platform offers users convenient access to all their important documents, such as bills and statements, within a single spam free app.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Today, she might manually extract those parameters, insert them in a Google Sheets document, email that to the system engineer or post it to a workspace like Confluence, and then the GNC team would manually take those values and hard-code them into GitHub or Bitbucket.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

The proposal forms around how our organisation can either be completely disrupted by or take full advantage of this massive opportunity that this technology presents. So, our message is, disrupt or be disrupted. Honestly, I prefer the latter. If this does not excite you even the slightest bit, I don’t know what will.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You need a great idea—ideally one that is disruptive and will scale and that you care about passionately. You should anticipate and plan for business, legal and other questions, and ensure your documents are in proper order. Set a date to close a funding round, stick with it, and circulate proper legal documentation ahead of time.

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Gust

AUGUST 7, 2012

Big disruptive successes create new markets, they don’t copy other successes in existing markets. Supposedly “game changing” or “disruptive,” for example. When a plan really is disruptive or game changing, investors will say so themselves. Empty broad claims. They want that too.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

They also help you surface things like documents that you shared with other people without having to look through a bunch of old emails to find them. Enter Xobni. They help you built insights into whom you connect with the most via email or whom you haven’t contacted in a long time. The build “implicit social networks.&#

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On Monday, at TC Disrupt Colin Zima CEO of Omni , Jordan Tigani CEO of Motherduck , Daniel Svnova CEO of Superlinked & Toby Mao CTO of Tobiko Data who are leading the evolution of the Post Modern Data Stack discussed the trends they are seeing. Here are some of the themes & predictions from the group. New BI systems will enable both.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. Amidst the chaos, construction firms faced an existential question: How will they survive? This question is as relevant today as it was in April. Construction is a massive, $1.3

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. You may hire a superstar, but if they are not a cultural fit then s/he can become very disruptive to the team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

I’ve been to many of the TechCrunch 50, Disrupt and many similar events over the years. We didn’t have any documents due that night. That’s your best chance to get people that would ordinarily be really difficult to get a meeting with. Consider staying out late, sleeping in. We just hung.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. This year for every plan that really looks like it might be disruptive or game changing I saw 20 or so that claimed to be. . Even the most amazing disruptive game-changing plans have competition. It had eight gigabytes of storage.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Latency and volume also need to be at a point where infrastructure can support the algorithms needed to gather data from thousands of different documents. Daloopa is disrupting how financial data is extracted and consumed,” said Abhishek Sharma, managing director at Nexus Venture Partners, via email.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 3, 2021

To avoid any problems, co-founders, regardless of any existing previous relationship, should document the responsibilities of each partner, investment amounts and what will happen if one party wants to withdraw. Ideally, this should be a formal agreement drawn up by a lawyer, or at least an agreement documented on paper.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

With COVID-19 disrupting the entire manufacturing supply chain including semiconductor shortages, companies across multiple industries have been struggling to seek a procurement solution that can rebalance the gap between supply and demand.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The idea behind Docyt, which started out as a secure document sharing platform, is to make it easier for SMBs to manage routine accounting tasks like collecting data, digitizing receipts, categorization and reconciliation. million seed extension round , and Morado Ventures.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2022

It suggests that disruptive technologies go through 5 key phases: 1. Technology Trigger: the emergence of a potentially disruptive technology. This is not surprising at all since all you need for US identity theft is a 9-digit number that is regularly passed around in emails, documents, on the phone, etc. ?? Ex: 2021 Bubble) 3.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” An investment-grade business plan is a professionally prepared document, preferably about 20 pages, to satisfy both angel investors and venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

In this session, Hamilton will discuss how she vets the biggest opportunities in investment, and how to disrupt in a positive way. How should these systems be exposed and documented, and how can we set about eliminating them and preventing more from appearing in the future?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

James Coombes, co-founder, and CEO of Vector.ai, commented: “Most employees within freight forwarders spend the majority of their time communicating with the 10-25 different entities that might be associated with a given shipment and coordinating freight movement and documentation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Paragon, a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2020 cohort, is designed to allow software products to integrate with third-party apps without disrupting existing workflows. Paragon is Foo’s second venture after Polymail, an email app focused on collaboration. It felt like we were reinventing the wheel every time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Just five years later, Pativada has been there and done that — earlier this year, he launched the AI-based app Kado, which turns photos, documents or PDFs into flash cards. ” Quddus Pativada, founder at DigestAI pitches as part of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 18, 2022. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The Times published Wikileaks documents supplied by Julian Assange , associating their old guard brand with a new form of activism/journalism - a very controversial move both internally and externally. In addition, the company hired a handful of young bloggers to incorporate a disruptive medium into their product.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be two days away from TechCrunch Disrupt! Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! Hello, hello. Soooo exciting!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on. It is less common to add a third founder because it can be disruptive having so many founders on a board but it’s certainly not unheard of.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Here’s how to give it to them For deep due diligence, minimize disruption to maximize success Image Credits: Vectorian (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Putting together a legitimate data room for due diligence is no small undertaking: stakeholders from multiple departments need to contribute reams of documents and keep them regularly updated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Your documentation, processes and most importantly, the software developers will also be under examination. education software companies typically see cyclical software development — higher in summer and lower in fall — to minimize disruption for customers when school starts. For example, U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The insurance market is still one of the industries least disrupted by technology on the continent. “We got struck by the fact that most of the companies didn’t actually have the capabilities to give APIs or to give us documentation to integrate.” However , it was difficult to achieve, CTO Nauman said.

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