Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. Now they are partners.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

The details of exactly how this was going to happen were a bit sketchy, but having a big hairy audacious goal galvanized the innovation community into achieving something spectacular. In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent. So where to start?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Some oppose industry disruption – I embrace it. It’s true that sometimes disruption forces companies out of business, and thus forces people out of their jobs. But the innovative minds that cause change are what we, as entrepreneurs and consumers, should want. Without this knowledge, industry disruption is near impossible.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This round is about seizing the opportunities ahead for our next phase of growth, including driving innovation with new products, exploring acquisitions, and ensuring long-term financial flexibility, said Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury. Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Read on to learn why Joachimsthaler believes this framework encourages innovation more than any other business model. A traditional company focuses on disruption or becoming more customer centric. Tesla has offered to share its innovative battery technology and other software with the automotive industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Today is last day to cast your vote for Audience Choice roundtables and breakouts at Disrupt 2023. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda. Voting ends at 11:59pm PDT tonight.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world of finance is undergoing a profound transformation, and Mexico is no exception. This evolution has been accelerated by regulatory changes that are fostering innovation and competition within the financial technology landscape. The immense potential of embedded finance is becoming increasingly evident.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation. The soundbite: “What distinguishes the apex innovators from behemoths who disappear? Executing on opportunities at the intersection of utility and disruption allows for exponential innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

You’ll be able to give them an update on key hires, pilot customers, key tech innovations – whatever. Like it or not – finance is a major job function in any company – startup or public company. Most importantly tell them what you plan to achieve by the next time you see them. Quick coffees, whatever.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Let’s kick off the Disrupt opportun-a-palooza with a time-sensitive reminder to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SBF 200) by July 31 at 11:59 p.m.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What advice would you give to entrepreneurs and professionals looking to finance their business? That being said, we have seen many examples of large companies that get disrupted by smaller, scrappier startups. Check out this talk from the guru of innovation, Clayton Christensen. . Many paths to successful startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

This Goliath imposed fight by ADT is particularly annoying for me because Ring is literally my family’s single favorite tech innovation of the past several years. And the giant gets disrupted precisely because its cost structure to serve its customers and its cash cow, high-priced offering makes it nearly impossible for it to try compete.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Morgan’s head of digital investment banking and digital private markets, will join us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. A leading financial advisor in the entertainment and sports industries, Roman focuses his holistic service model on creating and maintaining efficiencies within his clients’ finances.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt ! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. Connectivity isn’t a nice-to-have for innovation.

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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. Or worse yet they may never get financed. I see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meryem Salman, EO Turkey, partner and vice chairman +partner, Finance & Insurance and founder, Buldan Foundation. Freedom and Disruption. Disruption: Market failures are the bane of my existence. Disruption: Market failures are the bane of my existence. For this aim, I will work until I die.”. Realizing Dreams.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, well-attended startup events in the world — is around the corner, taking place September 19–21! Outsiders may not realize just how much work goes into planning Disrupt. If you want to receive this in your inbox every Sunday, sign up here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Back in February, we started calling for content — urging startup subject-matter experts to submit applications to lead roundtable discussions or breakout sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21 in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Audience Choice voting opens Now comes the part where you, dear readers, play a major role.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2025

Hyperscalers need the ecosystem to innovate with them to accelerate their infrastructure deployments, said Anshul Sadana, CEO of Nexthop AI. This disruptive model enables cloud companies to build the most cost- and power-efficient AI solutions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture. Also, more venture firms and startups are choosing debt as a non-dilutive financing alternative. in the New Yorker.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 The company is also currently piloting financing for e-mobility assets. . Image Credits: Tugende.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. Big companies just don’t seem to innovate the same way. We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Because of that, we went to the banks and tried to work with them to finance this kind of payment, but we realized that banks also had a problem: they couldn’t dash out credit to customers to finance retail solar systems when they didn’t understand the technical risks involved in owning them.” Think about it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

As President and co-owner of the 102-year-old Lamey Wellehan shoe stores, Jim Wellehan used sustainability to foster innovation and remain relevant in the face of fierce competition. In 2007, as the most affluent people in the world were meeting the first iPhone, another mobile innovator entered the market. billion in sales.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways. Most firms still have founders involved and they live fund to fund the way startups live customer to customer.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

“Both Open Banking and Pix will level the playfield for new challenges, and we expect to see a lot of innovation around them,” Yoshimura said, referring to another of the Central Bank’s projects. But now, VCs and founders are actually praising the Central Bank for its initiatives and the opportunities it has created.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. If the “forever ramen profitable&# or “startups as a source of M&A innovation&# arguments don’t hold then we’re likely headed for one big brick wall. We’ll re-compare notes then.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

I believe that our job can be stripped away to its core: We have to be really good at identifying talent and we have to be competent enough in startup operations and finance that they want to work with us and figure out the answers together. Any true disruption will change all the rules. It is unknowable.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space. Any other thoughts you want to share with TechCrunch readers?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Upon learning the import of the study, the Citi Foundation announced its first-ever Global Innovation Challenge to address food security. The Foundation’s goal is to help scale the role of nonprofits around the world to support their efforts of developing innovative solutions to improve food security. million meals on behalf of U.S.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 2, 2020

Today, OurCrowd announces the launch of its Pandemic Innovation Fund. To ensure that we get the world back on track, there is now an urgent need for innovation to help us overcome many of the problems resulting from the crisis. Other entirely new industries will appear. It’s time for tech to move fast and fix things.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Like Thiel, I think Christensen undervalues efficiency innovations. Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries. The text message (SMS), a trivial innovation, is the banking mechanism over which 33% of Kenyan GDP flows. And efficiency innovations will attract another.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

London-based Divido , a white-label platform for retail finance that integrates with e-commerce platforms (but can also support omni-channel) so retailers can offer consumers a “buy now, pay later” option at the point of sale, has bagged a $30 million Series B to fund international expansion. Making sense of Klarna.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) I’m not arguing that this is a wise move to do with one’s money, just that it seems to have appeal.

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