Glory and dreams-startups that change the world

"To live is to change the world." And Jobs did change the world, played an irreplaceable role in the Internet era, and this is also how many entrepreneurs dream, in the seemingly flourishing of the internet industry, startups a dime a few, truly innovative but only a handful, And the companies that really change the world are just as rare. The following is Business Insider's inventory of startups that have had a disruptive impact on different sectors of the world for more than six years, changing education, medical, print, music, financing and other industries, including open source 3D printer MakerBot, the first light field camera Lytro, Have credit card Terminator Dwolla, have ultrasonic charger ubeam and so on.

1 MakerBot Open Source 3D printer

Subversive Industries: Printing and manufacturing

Concept: Can print out any 3D models.

Founder: Bre Pettis

Address: New York Brooklyn

Financing: 1 million dollars of financing from foundry Group, Bezos Expeditions, True Ventures, RRE Ventures, and Sam Lessin.

Why subversive: Can the digital file into kind, if your child needs a toy, you can scan the toy kind, print out, not just printers, but also the physical "cloning machine." MakerBot also has a greater potential, such as a day of the lock is broken, want to change a heart lock, do not have to go to the store to buy, directly print a good, the same, you can print many other physical models, this is the MakerBot of the subversive significance.

2) public-chip platform Kickstarter

Subversive industries: financing and retailing

Concept: Anyone, if you have good idea can not go to the Kickstarter platform, we participate in financing

Founder: Perry Chen

Address: New York

Financing: From Union Square Ventures, Scott Heiferman, Zach Klein, Caterina Fake, Joshua Stylman, Peter Hershberg, Chris Sacca, Jack Dorsey, Joi Ito, Joshua Schachter, Jared Kushner, Matt Haughey, Chris Kaskie, Chris Dixon, Dan Rosenweig, Craig Shapiro, T Hrive Capital, Betaworks, received 10 million dollars in financing.

Why subversive: Change the way project financing and initiation, before Kickstarter, we have to look for investors, expensive, risky, with Kickstarter, entrepreneurs in the project's infancy can test their own concept products on the platform, Sometimes even the concept of products can not come out to obtain financing, so far Kickstarter has helped many projects to obtain financing, which recently very hot game host Ouya has created a number of records, two days to finance more than 3 million dollars.

3) Ultrasonic Charger Ubeam

Subversive industry: Electronic

Concept: Wireless charging for multiple devices by ultrasonic

Founder: Meredith Perry

Address: New York

Financing: 750,000 dollars from FF Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Crunchfund, Marissa Mayer, Tony Hsieh, Ellen Levy, Cane Investments, and Ken Seiff Financing。

Why is it subversive: if you go to a place with a laptop, cell phone, ipad, and so on, each device has a different charger, is it troublesome? Equipment such as Powermat is also good, but still need to plug in the board, and Ubeam Save all the trouble, only by ultrasonic, can be unlimited for all devices at the same time, now the prototype can only recharge the adjacent equipment, but Perry hope to develop a long-distance charging ubeam, such as hanging from the ceiling to charge all the equipment.

4 Online Doctor Appointment website ZocDoc

Subversive industry: Medical

Concept: Quick appointment of nearby free doctors

Founder: Nick Ganju, Cyrus Massoumi, Oliver Kharraz

Address: New York

Financing: From Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, Jason Finger, founders Fund, SV Angel, DST Global, Goldman Sachs to get 95 million dollars Funding。

Why it's subversive: ZocDoc can be free, and simply make an appointment to a nearby free doctor, from a dentist to a dermatologist. Seeing a doctor is a long-standing problem for people, often go to the hospital to be a long line of numbers before you, appointment online sometimes found that the number has been about, the original small tooth pain to want to wall also not about the doctor, if there is zocdoc will not have such difficulties, and now ZocDoc developed the application, you can directly with the phone to make an appointment, Very convenient, but the company's current doctors are in the United States, only in some parts of the United States to open services, look forward to a domestic company to the cottage.

5 Credit card Terminator Dwolla

Subversion industry: International payments/Credit cards

Concept: Immediate payment of immediate transfers, no royalty charges, only 25 cents per transaction, 10 USD for the following transactions free of charge, no minimum trading restrictions

Founder: Ben Milne

Address: Iowa

Financing: From Union Square Ventures, Sanlitun Ventures, Thrive Capital, Paige Craig, artists &instigators received 6.31 million dollars in financing.

Why subversive: There are a lot of companies committed to mobile payments and credit card services, but Dwolla has created a new method of payment that eliminates the cost of the credit card itself and the fees involved. With Dwolla, users can easily send money to others via Twitter,facebook or other social networking sites. At the same time, Dwolla technology can be easily integrated into the online business checkout page, only when the user account is sufficient to transfer, will not create a debt problem.

Imagine how much you've lost using Visa and MasterCard. How much did you save with Dwolla?

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6 Music Audition Software Spotify

Subversive Industry: Music

Concept: Free to listen to advertising music, or spend 10 dollars a month on the iphone or PC listening to all the music without ads

Founder: Daniel Ek

Address: Stockholm, Sweden

Financing: From Creandum, Northzone, Li ka-shing, Willington, Sean Parker, founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield, &byers , Accel, Digital Sky Technologies, received 188 million dollars in financing.

Why it's subversive: while the previous Napster and itunes overturned the music world, Spotify had a far more far-reaching impact, without paying for the song, without having to keep it for good, and to hear the latest and brightest music for free. If you want to have your own playlist, Spotify is better than Pandora, and Spotify is a good choice for those who are going the other way, pursuing fashion and being at the forefront.

7 Social networking site Twitter

Subversive Industries: News, social media

Concept: Allows users to post more than 140 words rather than lengthy text

Founder: Dick Costolo, Evan Williams, Biz Stone

Address: San Francisco, California, S

Financing: From Charles River Ventures, USV, Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo, Naval ravikant, Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Greg yaitanes, B Rian Pokorny, Bezos Expeditions, Spark Capital, Digital Garage, Kevin Rose, Timothy Ferris, Benchmark Capital, IVP, Digita L Garage, Insight Venture, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley, Kleiner, DST Global has been financed 1.16 billion dollars.

Why is subversive: on Twitter, the speed of news transmission and explosive is much stronger than other media, with astonishing speed of transmission, users of any mood, expression, can be published, open another way of sharing, people participate in the discussion spread.

8) move to pay square

Subversion industry: Paying

Concept: The use of square payment equipment, directly in the mobile device for credit card payment, a certain proportion of transaction costs

Founder: Jack Dorsey, Tristan O ' Tierney

Address: San Francisco, California

Financing: From Khosla Ventures, Greg Yaitanes, Marissa Mayer, Dennis Crowley, Kevin Rose, the beginning Round capital, Ron Conway, Biz Stone , Joshua Schachter, Shawn Fanning, Zachary Bogue, Andrew Rasiej, David Lee, Esther Dyson, Robin Chan, Gritz Lanman, Brian Pokorny, Xavier Niel, Jim Pitkow, Sequoia Capital, Visa, Kleiner, Tiger Global, Richard Branson, received 141 million dollars.

Why it's subversive: for the first time, it turns our phones into wallets, new age registers.

9 Light Field Camera Lytro

Subversive Industry: Photography

Concept: The photographer can shoot first, after focusing. After the photo is taken, the photographer can click on any part of the image to focus.

Founder: Ren Ng

Address: Mountain View, California

Financing: 50 million dollars of financing from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock.

Why it's subversive: The First light field camera (jobs wanted to implant this technology in the iphone). Once, you can capture the entire field of a picture, not the light.

10 Online education Platform 2tor

Subversion Industry: Education

Concept: Anyone can be educated online without going to school, but still get certified diplomas, and universities can still charge every student who has an online education at the same fee as a student in a school.

Founder: Chip Paucek, Jeremy Johnson and John Katzman

Address: New York

Financing: From Redpoint Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture, City Light Capital, Highland Capital, and Bessemer Venture part Ners, Hillman Ventures received 90.8 million dollars in financing.

Why subversive: Not only does the university provide tools, skills, funds, etc. to help the university to create and manage online education programs that are as important as school education, but also to help more students, so that students who cannot go to school have the right to equal education, and can be educated anywhere in the world, For example, we can also receive school education in China, such as Harvard and Cambridge, and get a degree.

11 Housing Leasing service Airbnb

Subversion industry: Hospitality/Service Industry

Concept: Anyone can rent their own vacant rooms, the tenant only pay a lower than the hotel rent, you can enjoy the service, elsewhere to enjoy their own small nest.

Founder: Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia

Address: New York

Financing: From Redpoint Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture, City Light Capital, Highland Capital, Bessemer Par Tners, Hillman Ventures received 90.8 million dollars in financing.

Why it's subversive: offering travelers a choice other than hotels, more affordable, free.

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