Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. .” So other partners at the firm might sling mud at your ideas as you go for approval on an investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’ Challenger (neo) banks have been some of the biggest winners of evolving consumer habits.

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Revolution

MARCH 23, 2022

Startups are a Sustainability Accelerant: Unlike industry incumbents with slower, more outdated frameworks, startups often build with sustainability at the forefront of their business?—?even The finding allowed the company to expand its book-in-advance offering to give customers more options and freedom.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

If you read Reid Hoffman’s important book, “ Blitzscaling ” you’ll realize that in some markets that are large, global and being disruptive sometimes being first to global scale can be more important than short-term unit economics. Last year I pointed out that software would help build competitive moats and we’re already seeing that.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

– Startups booking sales to other startups laundered the money flood and called it “blitzscaling”. LLMs are compute and energy hogs, and renting state of the art bundles of compute and energy by the millisecond is what tech incumbents do best. So what’s a founder to do? No one really knows, and that’s what makes it interesting.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

In partnership with Forbes, Brody produced a documentary series and is writing The Great Re:Write , a book based on it. Reinvent your incumbent enterprise before you’re disrupted by another, or you risk becoming obsolete. At GLC, he will address the rapid pace of change, innovation and disruption facing us all?and

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Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

and by substantial amounts of invested capital in formal amenities required by incumbent brands that are frequently cost centers rather than profit centers (lobby restaurant, room service, etc.). The levels of cleanliness, service, and experience differ from unit to unit and host to host.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this first clip, he explains why he thinks generative AI is a major architectural shift in computing, and why it represents an opportunity for startups to get a leg up on incumbents. … You have to learn, you have to adjust, and, if you’re not, you’ll have a problem to find a job.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant waves in the world of finance, with smaller outfits luring customers away from incumbents by providing an easier way for them to not only engage with basic banking services, but to tap into a wave of technology that brings more personalization and often better deals into the equation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

There’s knowledge that people have in their heads that is not on the internet and is not in any book. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

million users with over 8,000 merchants across 500 cities in Pakistan, and is on track to having a monthly loan book of more than $12 million. This acquisition makes PostEx the largest e-commerce service provider in the market, showing the potential of startups for challenging incumbents. PostEx will now serve 1.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

” Ivella isn’t just competing with the theory of joint accounts pushed by incumbent banks, but also venture-backed startups seeking a multiplayer fintech world. . “And because we’re focused specifically on couples, we want to build a product that feels not so sterile and not just like a bank.”

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

USV’s Albert Wenger has been writing his book, World After Capital , which lays out the argument that money is no longer the scarce asset driving the economy, but rather, it’s attention. They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

For those that don’t know, the title of this post is a play on the book Barbarians at the Gate , by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, which chronicles the battle to buy RJR Nabisco in 1988.) In the background, there was also a profoundly impactful technological revolution called the spreadsheet. billion, against almost $2.8

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Consider whether your startup is differentiating on pricing to compete with an incumbent, or if you’re selling a superior product at a premium, in which case using the same pricing model with higher fees reinforces your brand positioning. What should my unit of pricing be?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base. And then you have the regulators in Europe which are very positive towards innovation and incumbents and challengers. Is there a sector or two that you find particularly exciting?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But it is illustrative of the measures that financial services companies — incumbents and fintechs alike — are taking to make their installment loans available to more consumers. In other words, it wants to help fintechs be in a stronger position to compete with incumbents, something it believes will benefit consumers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Fintech startups are convinced that banks have lobbied the RBI to reach this decision, employing the age-old tactic where incumbents cry foul and rely on the regulator to rescue the day. India’s credit bureau data book is thin, making most individuals in the South Asian market unworthy of credit. ” the founder added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

billion in deposits on its books, and it is using that to run its loan product rather than taking out debt. Case in point: He told me that currently Lunar has some €1.3 Its loan products are currently the highest revenue generators at Lunar, he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. You may not have heard of Amadeus, but if you’ve taken a trip, you’ve probably interacted with its tech stack. What the Binance bailout of Axie Infinity means for crypto’s future.

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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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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g., dashboards to help price freight when brokers are calling around to find a truck), rather than rethinking the process of booking freight entirely.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 16, 2016

The CEO wants better predictability of bookings so she’ll buy a CRM tool to gather the data. And new SaaS companies who aim to displace incumbent systems of record will architect their products in a radically different way. A senior SaaS executive once told me, “Reports sell software.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

. “We’re able to predict lower future compute prices to impact future batch workload scheduling, kind of like searching for a cheaper flight on Kayak and booking a future date that’s cheaper,” Frayman explained. In 2017, Microsoft acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“Investors are putting a premium on growth in the context of profitability, and we’re growing exceptionally fast because we’re able to profitably serve customers who aren’t being well served by incumbents,” said Sean Harper, CEO of Kin.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win. The BCV team understood the opportunities that can come out of a business that integrates hardware, logistics and software into a single solution, as well as the challenges that come with building in many areas simultaneously,” says Gulley.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, Kremerman says that his company charges a smaller markup, around 15-18%, on each hour or day that’s booked through its platform. In addition to market expansion, Kremerman said the fresh cash injection will be used to double its headcount to 200 in the next six months, as well as acquire some incumbents in the market.

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Y Combinator

MAY 6, 2020

Only 29% of apparel, 11% of health & personal care, and 3% of food & beverage purchases were expected to happen online in 2020 in the US (compared to 55% and 43% of books/music and computers/electronics purchases, respectively 4 ). These numbers reveal a missing element in e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And in all those cases, big old incumbents like ICC will try to find ways to slow down their new competitors.” Law isn’t the only kind of information created by the government that can be leveraged in new ways. Property data, statistics and other kinds of government data can also support new businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Using the platform, facilities can post shifts they need to fill and healthcare workers can book these shifts, managing their schedules via Clipboard’s mobile app. Currently serving workers in more than 30 U.S. And you have patients who are slipping through the cracks, because they can’t get the care they need.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Articles from the episode: A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. Plus a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. Latch, a proptech meets SaaS play, conducts two consecutive weeks of layoffs.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

I have spoken and written extensively about this going back to a post on labor rights (2014) and my TEDxNY talk (2015), several subsequent blog posts , and my book World After Capital. This has massively reduced the power of incumbent banks, allowing for rapid innovation in the banking and payments sector.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

LinkedIn Learning, Masterclass, PBS, we’re uploading thousands of books from Gutenberg. It’s all still very much on the horizon, but it’s telling that in the short time since its founding Ameelio has already clawed away numerous facilities from industry incumbents that got their start in the ’80s.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

When it comes to using algorithms and other formulae to determine what kinds of services you might offer to specific customers and at what price, the insurance industry is one of the oldest in the book. “We have the tools to offer insurance to customers that traditional insurers struggle with,” said Alexander in a statement.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2014

The nature of sales processes is evolving as Daniel Pink eloquently argued in his book To Sell is Human. Because the freemium model relies on customers to educate themselves, freemium is best used as distribution advantage in established markets with incumbents who bear large customer-acquisition costs.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

How An Algorithm Transformed The Music Industry And Created The Mobile & Social Web As the music industry recently announced its first annual revenue growth after 15 years of uninterrupted contraction, I thought it was a good time to share some of the things I learnt from reading Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free.

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