Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Culture refers to the social and emotional glue that bonds employees together into a community of belonging, motivates employees and protects against burnout. It also involves the values that guide the community of your employees into the increasingly disrupted future. Why corporate culture suffered during the pandemic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2014

Technology is disrupting all types of media and talk radio will be no exception. So I called in and took the other side of that debate referring to myself solely as “Mark” and I think the host mentioned that I was an investor. At times I worry about NPR because I’m guessing the audience is aging alongside me.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else. We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. Lines vs. Dots is all about people. Market Opportunity.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 8, 2023

Psychological safety refers to an individual’s perception of the consequences of taking an interpersonal risk or a belief that a team is safe for risk taking in the face of being seen as ignorant, incompetent, negative, or disruptive. By far the most important attribute was Psychological Safety.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. So if this shift happens it really will lead to a disruption in billions of dollars of online spend.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. Competitors can leapfrog you on features or outspend you on customer acquisitions but communities are very hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

She wasn’t referring to the sophistication of the tools, but the way in which the hardware production toolset is balkanized across both teams and tasks. You’d be shocked at how archaic the tools are,” Lucy Hoag, co-founder of Violet Labs , said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The funding is being led by a strategic backer, Koch Disruptive Technologies , the investment arm of industrial giant Koch Industries (which has interests in energy, minerals, chemicals and related areas), with participation also from new investors State of Mind Ventures, Atento Capital, Summit Peak Investments and Delek-US.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. She was disruptive. “It was a series of inflection points. It wasn’t one explosive thing that just happened. It was us planting seeds in every place.”

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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

MARCH 13, 2011

I’ve been to many of the TechCrunch 50, Disrupt and many similar events over the years. Potential customers always prefer to talk to existing reference customers than to talk to just your sales reps. That’s your best chance to get people that would ordinarily be really difficult to get a meeting with.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide. Over the years, the angel network has based its infrastructure on syndicates — investment vehicles that allow investors, referred to as backers, to co-invest with prominent investors — known as leaders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

According to a recent survey from Capgemini, companies see disruption in the supply chain as the top risk to their business growth, ahead of rising raw material prices and the energy crisis. And parts of Europe faced uncommonly high temperatures and drought conditions. “Our customers are made up of some of the world’s largest brands.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

One key challenge for early-stage companies that are disrupting a particular space or creating a new category is figuring out how to sell a unique product to customers who have never bought such a solution. This is especially the case when a solution doesn’t have many reference points and its significance may not be obvious.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. billion while Disrupt Africa, $496 million for the same year. of the total African VC funding counted by Disrupt Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a point of reference, when Peak was acquired for $1.8 On one side, the genre has been around for years now, and so the time is ripe to try to disrupt it. billion by Zynga, it had raised a mere $19 million in 10 years. What’s even more notable is that Spyke has raised this money before it’s even launched anything.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For today, we’ll refer to them simply as “studios.” With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years. Studios are causing this precise disruption to the traditional ways of building companies and how to invest in them. Y-Combinator: 2,000+ Exit: Idealab: 35%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

This is Hopper’s second raise in a year that has been marked by turmoil for the travel industry, owing to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. And one that’s working really surprisingly well is the disruption insurance.” Also, does it really leverage tech in a way that is differentiated?

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s when it feels like the New Thing has limitless upside, that “anything is possible and everything before will be disrupted” mindset. Total Value Created >>>> Total Investment Capital Deployed & Multiple (But Not Necessarily Equal) Winners (this is the outcome of truly revolutionary and disruptive technologies.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Debt capital, which refers to capital raised by taking out a loan, is an alternative route that entrepreneurs should consider. People tend to think that category creation is less risky than incumbent disruption. Carving out your own market is a fast-track to entrepreneurial stardom if you’re successful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

” And there’s more to come: During TechCrunch Disrupt, Claure said that SoftBank can be expected to deploy between $8 billion to $10 billion of capital into Latin America in 2022. Perhaps even more interestingly, unicorns are driving a self-reinforcing trend, ALLVP’s Rojas told TechCrunch. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

But Adept’s vision, at a high level, is to create what it refers to as an “AI teammate” trained to use a wide variety of different software tools and APIs. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. “Foundation model” is a bit jargony.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. Certain late-stage VCs have invested in some of my past funds, partly to motivate us to refer future investment opportunities to them. Refer a startup, get $2,500”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

R2X is now referred to as R2). There are multibillion dollar industries that can be disrupted if autonomous vehicles become successful.” ” it asked. It also recommended the petition be denied until Nuro could provide a more detailed cybersecurity plan against its bots being hacked or hijacked.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds can be referred to as Uber for freelance marketing services. How is your offering disrupting the industry? In the words of the company’s top associate – Our technology joins your existing company data with a flexible team that evolves as your company goes through the various stages of its lifecycle. The Concept.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

One thing that recruited me was this brilliance that we can kill two birds with one stone,” she said, referring to Duolingo’s original translation-service business model we talked about in part one of this EC-1. “It It was obviously tied to Luis’ thinking and reCAPTCHA and it was magical and brilliant.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The founder of Parachute, Ariel Kaye , had a clear vision for what she wanted to disrupt and how she thought she could do it. I will avoid talking about Ring (for obviously reasons) but can return to how Jamie built an amazing business in a future post. and thumbing through undifferentiated products in plastic wrapping.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We had three such companies share our virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 this year, including Cityblock Health president and co-founder Toyin Ajayi, Forward CEO and founder Adrian Aoun, and Carbon Health ‘s Eren Bali. “So at the end of the day, you’re [referring to Eren and Carbon] launching a scheduling feature. .”

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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

MARCH 27, 2022

Jewell said account-to-account (A2A), which refers to bank account-to-bank account transactions, is no need for a card or pin. “With open banking and the NPP, Australia has found itself at the centre of this disruption – and Zepto is the leading innovator in this space. ” .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Today, it’s announcing some funding to capitalize on that, a reminder of how disruption is always around the corner. Ruiz-Múzquiz refers to this as “the handoff mindset.” The company, based out of Madrid, has picked up $8 million in a round led by Decibel out of the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As Reid explained it, “total landed cost” refers to the duties, taxes, import and shipping fees someone from another country might pay when purchasing items from the U.S. One of the things that attracted MacLean to the company was that Reid was building a company outside of Silicon Valley and disrupting global trade far from any port.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Then you’ll want to refer the top early-stage startups in your portfolio/pipeline Rolodex to Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2023! It’s also the absolute best way for an entrepreneur to get the most out of Disrupt 2023 — with a guaranteed free demo space on the show floor and the chance to win $100,000 in equity-free funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Personal finance is hard – and that’s a tale as old, and difficult to disrupt, as time. Nagpal thinks he can nail early adoption through smart education material and outreach, referring to personal finance trends on TikTok as an example of consumer demand for more information. Image Credits: Ocho.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

“It was an interesting time in the Nasdaq and [regarding] world geopolitical issues,” he said, referring to the confluence of events that made 2022 a year that many would sooner forget, from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and disrupted supply chains to surging inflation around the world. Is venture funding already back?

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