TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

But it also could be the worst of times for founders thinking about launching an AI startup, especially one that can grow and be defensible against incumbents in a fast-changing environment. Their advice could help founders understand what they need to do to be successful and take advantage of this technological leap. What’s working?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company has a strong, defensible business model that can win market share from incumbents. 7 (Please note that this isn’t investment advice from me or a16z!) A Great company brings the most innovative products to the market and continuously evolves them to meet changing demand. What’s next Here’s the best part.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You know, incumbents versus startups. But in the last cycle, and maybe just from a B2B lens here, in SaaS and cloud, there were a bunch of things that made it really difficult for the incumbents to actually innovate. But it’s a real problem for the incumbent, because they can’t compromise their brand. David: Yeah.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

My advice on building a plan, taken directly from my course, is as follows: Identify the customer’s problem(s). B2B companies face a similar battle against multibillion-dollar incumbents and unicorn startups. Learn who is currently solving your customer’s problem(s); these are your competitors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The trio shared their thoughts on everything from what types of startups in the home buying and lending space have the best shot at survival to the advice they are giving startups in their portfolios. In such a climate, companies that help others navigate tough times seem to be in special demand.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Column Tax’s software differs from that of incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block in that it is mobile-only and will be embedded into a customer’s existing bank account, allowing for year-round integration that the company says will cut down users’ time spent on tax prep.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? Startups vs. incumbents David: I want to shift gears just a little bit and move towards the business and market structure side of things. 00:36] Will AI replace designers? [4:03]

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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. It also partners with organizations such as Profit First, a group that offers financial management advice to small businesses. Then there were those companies that existed well before the pandemic.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

First, they believe that the current offerings from the financial incumbents are lacking. Regulation becomes the friend of the incumbent in highly regulated industries through a process known as regulatory capture. The basis of this argument is really two fold. The point to understand is that the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Right now this care is antiquated and run by incumbents, many of which still run off paper and Excel. She added: “In 12 months, we have tripled revenue, launched the first App in the world to offer free care advice, and cut Carer churn to half the industry average, all while maintaining exclusively 5-star reviews on Trustpilot.”.

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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

But, most important, when I started out investing, I was very lucky to get lots of smart advice. I also don’t have lots of direct experience with Series A or B deals. Increasingly, the bar to hit Series A has gotten even higher. Having more shots on goal helps spread out the effects of the loss ratio.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

If I could give 2014 Kieran one piece of advice from 2024 Kieran, it would be to center this much more explicitly in how I approached my job as CEO. Are there specific paths/opportunities in AI that you believe startups are actually better qualified to take advantage of than incumbents? This work is my zone of excellence.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

” Countless vendors offer online tax prep services, including incumbents like TurboTax and H&R Block. April is essentially a certified public accountant in your pocket, and with U.S. consumers increasing their preference for digital channels, tax services will follow suit.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

In this environment, most CISOs are experiencing “vendor overload,” which means small players that lack a robust network and large marketing budgets can’t participate in the same sales channels as incumbents. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. opens in a new window) license. Develop new products.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From Tage Kene-Okafor: Kuda , the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K. by offering a remittance product to Nigerians in the diaspora. The digital bank has seen some success since launching in Nigeria in 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

I found that I was always more curious about issues like “why do you charge for your web hosting services this way when newer non-incumbent players do not?&# I think one of the greatest weaknesses of boards is that they are tourists by definition and sometimes confuse their observations and advice for actionable insights.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Extras: Hana Mohan’s Twitter thread on the YC advice to founders. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. Other news from the week: It’s official: Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal. Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board. Hana Mohan’s episode of Found.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Remember the “buy low, sell high” advice they were supposed to teach you in business school? And speaking of value, the valuations in 2009 — when CB Insights began tracking that cohort — were lower, making it easier to fund in the next round.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. Asia is smaller but growing as wealth increases in large, urban environments.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Its ambition lies in the fact that there are massive incumbents in this space, like Google and Microsoft. In their earliest time together, the conversations centered around advice on the Seattle tech ecosystem or on working with a particular team at Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. How does the incumbent respond? Does your product dramatically reduce costs in an industry with large incumbents and fat margins? How do existing incumbents compete with that?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

So it’s incumbent on you to know what a smart business plan and use of cash looks like. In the next post I’ll give some advice on how to talk about valuation when a VC asks. they’re more often likely to tell you, “It’s not a great fit for us at the moment. We’d love to see you again when you have a little bit more traction.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

So when Goldman Sachs announced this week it was buying NextCapital – a fintech company that provides automated advice to corporate retirement plan participants – my ears perked up. It also noted that Goldman’s intent to buy NextCapital “follows several moves by multiline incumbents (e.g.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Susu offers care packages or bundles to patients suffering from chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension and pregnant women who require careful management to ensure their conditions are monitored and get the preventative advice to live the best way with their conditions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Also, we’re adding a new feature to Extra Crunch Live — our guests will offer advice and feedback on pitch decks submitted by Extra Crunch members in the audience! For four years running, the S&P 500 and incumbent financial services companies have been outperformed by companies like Afterpay, Square and Bill.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It’s hard to find actionable, proven advice for scaling startups. Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry,” he writes for TechCrunch+. Dear Sophie: Any advice for getting media coverage for my startup? Any advice? Scaling across Series A to C.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

” Something of a preview played out over the past year when, at the advice of a nurse, a father took pictures of his young child’s swollen genital area and texted them to the nurse’s iPhone. That infiltration step might not be necessary anymore.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. When should I hire a sales team?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

For the real enemy was never “Anne” nor “Tom,” but an incumbent banking industry that had grown not just too big to fail but too big to listen and respond to a generation of digital-savvy customers who wanted a more modern banking experience.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. ” Jarvis Johnson [00:43:40] – I think that I’m sure I can do some sort of advice or Q and A type thing, but it’s just not where my attention is right now.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The common advice for free tiers of a product is to “think about it like a marketing expense,” which is technically true; however, it still has a cost. Why You Really Shouldn’t Do Both Beyond the obvious advice that “doing two hard things is harder than doing one hard thing,” there are several other reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

That, or incumbents. Stay focused on your message. And privately reach out to your competitor. Go meet them in person. Explain that your biggest competitor is inertia as it almost always is for startups. But tit-for-tat between small companies NEVER makes sense. Don’t do it.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. This impedes sympathy and the ability to deliver appropriate advice. I don’t like freemium ; I want to learn from people who care enough to pay, not from the 20x more who don’t. ” — Leo Tolstoy.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Dharmesh: I think that was good advice. Because people don't love the incumbent right now. It's kind of related to Constant Contact's space and we want to get her advice. Dharmesh: My general advice is, and this is not just my personal lived experience as new folks would say. Dharmesh: That would be my advice.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. We made up for the inefficiencies in the software by giving them good advice on how to optimize their website, and how to get going in social. 10:00 – HubSpot’s first customer.

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