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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

It's difficult not to include Steve Jobs at the top of that list; he established a brand in Apple that altered global habits and elevated the importance of design in our daily lives. Cryptocurrency is going to really disrupt banking by taking over one of its essential services, namely, secured payments. Photo Credit: Tiffany Payne.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. 475 of those have been formed in the last 5 years, according to Global Corporate Venturing.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

Like a traditional capital fund, Kayweb Angels also has a board of directors that provides its startups with connections, guidance and help securing further funding. Since getting started in October, the board has already invested work in three startups (all in stealth mode): whoisgreen.com , burringo.com and doitinperson.com.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealthsocial media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. It may not matter to you what Kohort is or isn’t, nor whether stealth is good or bad. Kohort said the site was “stealth&# to play up the sense of mystery around its brand and to generate interest. I think this strategy works.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments.