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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

TechCrunch

The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service. For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. More posts by this contributor. Derek Xiao. Contributor.

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How to Build a Team That Can Navigate Your Business Through Difficult Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. Collaborative. Great leaders understand the value of collaboration. They know collaboration yields the best, most innovative ideas. Communicative.

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Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Others may call this dichotomy digital versus physical, the disruptor mindset versus the incumbent mindset, start-up world versus Fortune 500, or tech culture versus industrial culture. Amid the insistent drumbeat of digital transformation, those traditional, old-fashioned competencies are easily overlooked and underappreciated.

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Why I Backed a 24-Year-Old Trying to Assess Human Potential

Both Sides of the Table

Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever. We need leaders who know how to accomplish feats through teamwork and collaboration. But only truly talented entrepreneurs show the grit required to respond rapidly to a changing environment.

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FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services

TechCrunch

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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Putting Data in a Corner: LLMs and Financial Services Data

Andreessen Horowitz

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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Bond Pet Foods enters meat proteins phase with $17.5M Series A

TechCrunch

All of these global players knocked on our door, and we realized that we can build a healthy business and have a larger material impact if we collaborate with established companies instead of doing it on our own,” he added. “We’re Investors salivate over food tech companies perfecting precision fermentation.