TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Back in 2014, Chris Dixon wrote a bit about this phenomenon in his post on “ Full stack startups.” The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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real estate incumbents health disruption 144

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 2014 to offer little or no fee remittances from North America and Europe to select African and Asian countries. ” Going up against incumbents. Third-party providers, mostly fintechs, have tried to capture some market share from these incumbents.

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investing investment incumbents networking 124

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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incumbents financing finance technology 87

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

CEO Greg Chen founded the company in 2014 came from his 15-year span in the mobile industry, noticing how enterprises in South Africa struggled to target and engage their customers via SMS efficiently. “How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there.

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incumbents disruption opportunity enablement 90

Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Valuations there fell from their highs in 2014. The first post sketched the idea and the second filled in the details of one theory on how startups will disrupt their incumbents, and particularly the dominant systems of record. Time for some quantitative analysis of the content that readers liked the best this year.

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SaaS incumbents strategy disruption 40

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. ” will be “What are your unit economics?” Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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real estate startup incumbents sustainability 40

OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Casper is a directto-consumer sleep brand that broke onto the scene in 2014 with a re-designed, high quality mattress that shipped directly to consumers’ doors. OurCrowd portfolio company The Bouqs knows this to be true and has disrupted the $100B global floral industry by emphasizing sustainability and transparency.

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sustainability incumbents technology strategy 51