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. “The investment builds on our strategy of backing best-in-class businesses and management teams,” Lise Kaae, the CEO of Heartland, said in a statement when the first tranche was announced. ”

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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You have large incumbents with very outdated systems, but a very loyal and a very high degree of trust customer base.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. Yeah, that’s our strategy. Is there a sector or two that you find particularly exciting?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Some banks have been employing the same strategy for like a decade!” 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. ” the founder added.

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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. “Our engineers are excited about this move,” said Pellisé. .

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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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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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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Investor confidence in Kin continues to climb due to its unique business strategy and market focus, which have produced systematic, capital efficient growth. (doing its reinsurance business as HSCM Bermuda), and Alpha Edison. Kin has now raised approximately $265 million in equity funding to date.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Articles from the episode: A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books. Lane explains the strategy behind changing a company’s direction and the emotional toil it takes on everyone involved — from employees to executives to the investors. Plus a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. Which would be good for all of us.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 3, 2017

Michael Porter wrote the seminal book on strategy in the early 1980s. Called Competitive Strategy, I think it should be required for anyone starting a company. Strategy is a seemingly murky amorphous intangible concept, but Porter brilliantly prescribes the five questions strategy should answer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

The only worry is incumbents might want to eat into Duplo’s meal — but then again, the market is massive. Founders : Among them is CEO Andrew Airelobhegbe, who says he was previously co-founder and CEO at ogaVenue, which he described as “Nigeria’s largest online event venue booking portal.”

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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. How much money will airlines companies, hotel companies or event companies pay me as a referral or for booking?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. Incumbents can’t react. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Other monetization blocks allow creators to accept donations or sell digital downloads — like e-books or paid video content, for instance. “Our strategy is…to continue building out more of these different kinds of revenue streams for creators,” says Neal. Image Credits: Beacons.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Calendly , the scheduling startup that landed with a splash last year when it raised a huge round out of nowhere at a $3 billion+ valuation , has made a name for itself for tools that are used by more than 10 million people to book appointments, arrange meetings and plan any event that involves two or more people making time for each other.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In a few days, Thiel and Masters will release a book version of these notes called Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future. These are my three favorite ideas from the book. Most disruptive companies are better, faster, and cheaper versions of incumbents’ products. I was given a copy at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

That’s what happened this week with Ro , which laid off 18% of its full-time workforce to “manage expenses, increase the efficiency of [its] organization, and better map our resources to [its] current strategy.” Image Credits: Getty Images/dblight. On Monday, June 27 at 11:30 a.m. PT/2:30 p.m.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

” C++ is not a great first language to learn, especially if it’s just from a book. Craig Cannon [00:20:17] – I’m not much a fan for business books, but there’s one called The E-Myth. Craig Cannon [00:37:56] – Weird strategy. Craig Cannon [00:05:29] – That’s terrible.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. Founders almost never have a real strategy. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. HT Jeff Bezos) You want to argue that the future is unknowable, but that’s just an excuse for not having a strategy.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

It does a search across, you know, basically all of these words and sentences and diagrams and books and photos and everything that human beings have created. And then the way those modern data centers are built by the leading-edge companies now is they’re sort of built on day one with an integrated strategy for energy and for cooling.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And you can learn a lot of what you need just by reading the top three books on it and just practicing the craft, right? Because people don't love the incumbent right now.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Brian Halligan [02:14] – I basically just block all that day Wednesday so no one can book a meeting there. I think what helped a lot of introverts, I don’t know about you guys, is when that lady wrote that, what was her name, wrote that book. Craig Cannon [03:56] – I felt that after that book came out.

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