2016 incumbents strategy 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt.
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Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 20, 2016
2016 was a year of change for SaaS, and most of the story was the public market. The Hottest Startup Sectors In 2016 - published on January 3rd, this post reviewed the patterns of investment in startups, and in particular, the sectors where investors were increasing their investment the fastest. The end of the year is fast approaching.
TechCrunch
JULY 25, 2021
Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”. The tech revolution hasn’t yet affected the bottled beverage industry quite as much as it has others.
Haystack
JULY 20, 2018
More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.
Hunter Walk
MAY 17, 2024
That is to say, I DMed her on Twitter in 2016, impressed by the work she was doing but without a preexisting relationship. But when your team is the larger organization, you can’t use this strategy. Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents?
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 13, 2022
A flurry of fintechs emerged in hope of meeting that demand while incumbent banks clamored to step up their own digital games. Founded by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler in 2016, the startup was born to serve small business owners such as barbers, mechanics and local restaurant owners. Image Credits: NorthOne.
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