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Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19

500

Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. The post Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. What is “disruptive&# is that is also dramatically less expensive. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

Docracy, born out of Techcrunch Disrupt's 2011 Hackathon, just brought legal negotiations into the cloud with their new Super Signing feature release. When the law becomes so complicated that only a select few with the money to hire lawyers can translate and manipulate it, you give a tremendous advantage to those already in power.

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The Last Coder

This is going to be BIG.

We've seen disruption by machines among all sorts of human labor, particularly in the area of "making stuff". We've certainly seen technology labor get disrupted by technology itself before. The iPhone meant that a ton more devs needed to learn all sorts of new code, without the benefit of having prior frameworks and shortcuts.

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Here’s a peek at what’s happening on day one at Disrupt

TechCrunch

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. Disrupt Stage | 10:00 am. Disrupt Stage | 1:40 pm.

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B2B Fintech Drives Market Disruption in Mexico

Andreessen Horowitz

This groundbreaking piece of legislation marked Mexico as the first in Latin America to establish a regulatory framework tailored explicitly for fintech companies and opened the door for new players to enter the market. The most prominent of these changes was the Fintech Law of 2018.

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Per Seat or Per Use Pricing: A Framework for Evaluating the Right Strategy for Your Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

Madhavan provided an excellent framework for answering this question, in addition to a multitude of other insights. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Those are some of the chestnuts from the session, and they provide a rough framework. Competition.