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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. It should affect how you think if you are an incumbent but also if you’re a startup. Incumbents feel threatened.

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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data. Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. The products include access to capital, spend management, and savings tools.

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When AI Favors the Incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

Incumbents have lept onto advances in generative machine learning more aggressively than any trend in recent technology history. But generative ML differs because incumbents are pushing the envelope. In addition to these the advantages, these incumbents have another edge : their distribution.

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Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021

TechCrunch

For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index. For the fourth straight year, the publicly traded fintechs massively outperformed the incumbent financial services providers as well as every mainstream stock index.

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Israeli fintech Personetics raises $85M for tools to help incumbents personalize banking services to compete with neobanks

TechCrunch

Today a startup that is building tools to help incumbent address this challenge is announcing a round of funding on the back of a lot of demand for its services. “T hey are seeing the impact of the alternatives,” he said, with the migration away from the incumbents happening gradually. It’s not disclosing valuation.

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How Much Should You Raise in Your VC Round? And What is a VC Looking at in Your Model?

Both Sides of the Table

Are you raising an appropriate amount of capital relative to your progress, relative to your team size and relative to your needs? VCs want you to raise the “appropriate” amount of capital, which I would define as what is reasonable given your progress to date, your resources and your needs for an 18–24 month period. Cash In Cash in.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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