Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Try to imagine if you *didn’t* already know Amazon and the company walking into VC meetings telling people they were going to disrupt the selling of all goods starting with books but then extending into electronics, apparel, toys and so forth. Today’s asset – real estate – is tomorrow’s albatross.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

Ignitepost IgnitePOST is a service that enables sales & marketing teams to boost conversion rates by 15X. We combine software and robotics to allows businesses to send real pen & ink handwritten notes at scale, directly from their current CRM system. Medkairos 1 out of 5 biopsies fail to return a diagnosis. management.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

BayaniPay is also collaborating with BDO Unibank to enable its users in the U.S. to directly pay bills, tuition and other school fees, medical expenses, and even real estate in the Philippines through the use of paycodes. CEO Winston Damarillo said he is very excited about how quickly BayaniPay has grown.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Opendoor co-founder and CEO Eric Wu said his company, a publicly traded real estate fintech, was navigating “one of the most challenging real estate markets in 40 years.”. Opendoor announced it was letting go of 18% of its staff. This is around 500 people. Chargebee has laid off about 10% of its staff.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

As consumers grew more comfortable with the web, marketplaces like eBay, Etsy, Expedia and Wayfair* emerged, enabling historically offline transactions to occur online. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. Going after very large markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Infra.Market, an Indian startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second-most populated nation procure materials and handle logistics for their projects, said on Tuesday it has secured its third financing round in the past nine months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A startup that is improving the way construction and real estate companies in India procure materials and handle logistics for their projects has received the backing of three new investors. We are bringing a service layer to these small manufacturers, enabling them to grow their business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2022

NFTs are more important than you think… In this article, I explored the REAL use cases of NFTs that are being built, and what they will be used for in the future. It suggests that disruptive technologies go through 5 key phases: 1. Technology Trigger: the emergence of a potentially disruptive technology. Ex: 2021 Bubble) 3.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 In particular, Cora wants to go even deeper in certain segments such as B2B professional services such as law and accounting firms; real estate brokerage and education. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Even then, it took nearly 20 years for BIM software — which enables architects to look at building cross-sections from any angle — to become the industry standard. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. A photo of the BeamUP team. Image Credits: BeamUP. ” Competition in the market.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In-store, however, also represents a large amount of inefficient overhead due to real estate and building costs, the rotation of products, theft and the cost of maintaining a staff to serve customers. “Tech-enabled cost savings accumulate over time and boost grocery retailers’ margins,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Like many other online real estate brokerages, Homie pledged lower commissions and a more streamlined process. Also, like many other real estate brokerages, it has attempted to become a one-stop shop for home buyers and sellers by branching out into loan, insurance and title services. . YC-backed Duplo raised a $1.3M

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In a recent conversation, CEO Gunnar Froh told TechCrunch about the pivot and gave a general update on the company, a member of this year’s Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022. Jasper competes more directly with Los Angeles–based Nommi, which supplies autonomous food kiosks to real estate and college campus partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Other investors on the cap table include Nordic real estate innovator NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, U.K. real estate technology fund Round Hill Ventures and Norway’s Construct Venture.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 2, 2012

In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. Pure Storage has built software to enable cheaper, but more failure-prone consumer flash drives to achieve the quality of service enterprises demand.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2024

Audited, GAAP financial statements enable a potential buyer to efficiently analyze the company’s financial outlook both during the due diligence process and for any post-closing purchase price adjustments. Financial Records Potential buyers typically have standard expectations regarding an emerging company’s financial records.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

will have the ability to use Square in English or Spanish, “including key products like Square Banking to unlock access to financial services and Square for Restaurants to enable seamless, bilingual communication between front- and back-of-house staff.”. This means that millions of Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S. See you next week!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We are now seeing the second-order effects of the fintech boom, as the same set of conditions arise in other soon-to-be disrupted sectors. In the insurance space, similar changes are giving way to innovative models like 180 o in Brazil and Betterfly in Chile.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It’s not just e-commerce: New restrictions on data sharing and collection will raise customer acquisition costs for everything from auto sales to real estate. Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies. If your startup is formulating a zero-party data strategy, please read.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The plates were a market ripe for disruption.” ” The company is eager to give a lot of credit to the various government organizations that have enabled them to operate. It enables the states to move into the future.” That means that you could use that real estate to do a lot of really creative things.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Walking around today’s construction site, Danon said the adoption of technology is enabling Buildots to move quickly to build processes for the industry. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. We learn from one project to another and want to look for the challenges where data will help make a financial impact.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Frances Schwiep: We’re on the lookout for companies both enabling and distributing next generation financial products. Beyond embeddable fintech products, we’re excited about companies that are disrupting traditional payment rails with more efficient models. I believe the next Alibaba will start as a fintech play.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

Latch CFO Garth Mitchell, who discussed his startup’s merger with real estate SPAC $TSIA. RPA has enabled executives to provide a level of automation that essentially buys them time to update systems to more modern approaches while reducing the large number of mundane manual tasks that are part of every industry’s workflow.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

eToro, a Robinhood competitor that describes itself as “the social investing network,” announced the introduction of ESG scores for over 2,700 stocks on its platform, “enabling its users to consider environmental, social, and governance factors when building their portfolios.” To be clear, Aireal doesn’t operate as a fintech per se.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 20, 2023

And not to get too far ahead of myself, but some (including me) have maintained that a disruption in some part of the US financial system in 2023 was going to force the Fed to reverse the tightening cycle we’ve been in for the past year — and it would appear that we’re right on track. At least your capital is still purchasing government debt.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. Just eight years from founding to dominance with an entirely new model: the largest taxi company in the world owns no taxis and the largest hotelier in the world owns no real estate.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Hot damn, it’s happening: A bunch of the TechCrunch team are on airplanes, aeroplanes and other spellings of flying vessels to come join us in San Francisco for Disrupt. Lauren S made us a user’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt along with a guide to all the receptions, parties and other cool extracurriculars. See you soon!

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the past decade since the Lean Startup’s introduction, many seasoned entrepreneurs have come to believe that it largely fails at the very thing it sought to accomplish: enabling entrepreneurs to more predictably and successfully bring new products to market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Over the last 12 months, we’ve been very focused on what we call ‘reinventing retail,’ which for us is looking into how to especially disrupt the supply chain and procurement side of things. Real estate is also expensive, which cuts into costs. What have you been focused on lately? How has that strategy worked out so far?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Launched by startup SmartLabs in 2005, Insteon at one point had an agreement with Microsoft to sell its kits at Microsoft Store locations and was one of the two launch partners for Apple’s HomeKit platform, with the HomeKit-enabled Insteon Hub Pro. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Kitty Hawk.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Reports Manish Singh: “India and Singapore have linked their digital payments systems, UPI and PayNow , to enable instant and low-cost fund transfers in a major push to disrupt the cross-border flow of money between the two nations that amounts to more than $1 billion each year.” Opendoor Technologies continues to face challenges.

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StartupNation

MAY 24, 2021

With the disruptions 2020 saw, it’s never too early to start planning for the latter part of the year, the e-commerce marketing that drives it and the order fulfillment that keeps people coming back. Instead, use that top real estate more effectively with banners that convey this information with clean imagery or even video.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. has a legacy, centralized financial infrastructure that needs to be disrupted and re-imagined by fintechs with blockchain technology. and Mexico. and Mexico.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Treedom, based in Italy, enables consumers and corporations to plant trees and track their environmental impact with the click of a button. This breakthrough allows automation to be deployed at a more nimble scale, and will completely disrupt high-speed time-to-market manufacturing forever. Register Here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

As a firm, we focus broadly on consumer, marketplaces, e-commerce infrastructure, real estate technology and fintech. The biggest benefit is that remote work has enabled people in Big Tech to work outside of Silicon Valley, and it appears Miami and South Florida, more broadly, are enjoying the benefits of that decentralization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Brex co-CEO and Henrique Dubugras admitted as much onstage at Disrupt.) Adam Neumann’s latest startup, residential real estate upstart Flow , is partnering with fintech startup Bond to create a digital wallet for Flow’s residents. Then a mass layoff. Did they all get ahead of themselves? The company says its jump into the U.S.

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