TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry. Three key factors are tilting the balance in favor of emerging players: The cycle of creative destruction is shorter than ever. For startup founders, these words aptly describe the road ahead. Customer loyalty has waned.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – said it uses data science to “ identify, underwrite and close transactions 10x faster than incumbents.” ” It describes itself as a “managed marketplace.” My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon!

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. What gets less attention, but is equally (if not more) valuable, is the business-use side of GenAI content creation: marketing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “We started the OpenAI Startup Fund to accelerate the impact companies building on powerful AI will have on the world, and we’re particularly excited about tools that empower people creatively,” OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, who manages the OpenAI Startup Fund, said in a press release.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Today’s investment showcases, if anything, how important Axie’s precedent is to the development of the broader ecosystem – and how willing VCs and crypto incumbents are to bend over backward to make sure it succeeds.”. What the Binance bailout of Axie Infinity means for crypto’s future.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. As a part of Google’s Creative Lab 5 (an experimental R&D group), they helped to launch apps like the AI Test Kitchen and the Pixel Buds Pro.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? LLM assistants (like ChatGPT) are dominant, but companionship and creative tools are on the rise General LLM chatbots represent 68% of total consumer traffic to the top 50 list. Who might be the next “big winner”?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

.” Image Credits: Bria Bria also clearly denotes all generated images on its platform with a watermark and provides free access — or so it claims, at least — to nonprofits and academics who “work to democratize creativity, prevent deepfakes or promote diversity.”

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

Since we’re in the “land grab” phase of generative AI adoption, including your generative AI feature in your core offering can also make your product more appealing than offerings from incumbents and other startups. What are others doing?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Fintech startups have thrown a curve ball into the world of financial services by building more flexible, cheaper and user-friendly tools to businesses and consumers, who in turn are walking away from older incumbents and taking their custom to newer providers. All the reasons why you should launch a credit or debit card.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We can’t hand the support to the tech ecosystem to an incumbent bank! Brent Hoberman, founder of LastMinute.com and now head of FirstMinute Capital commented on LinkedIn: “[I] Have been a fan of Tech Nation and the hard work and impact they have had and the creativity to expand their role. We need to shout this into oblivion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Also participating was New York-based FirstMark Capital and Frst , as well as angel investors including Paul Melchiorre, former CEO of business planning giant Anaplan, and David Clarke, the ex-CTO of Workday, another business planning incumbent.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 16, 2017

Adobe Creative Cloud (about 8M). SaaS companies are winning monster accounts from incumbents. This monumental deal is a validation of SaaS products at the very largest scale both in terms of contract value but also the number of seats. There are not that many million subscriber businesses in existence. Intuit/QuickBooks Pro (about 5M).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In a quick test, I had my partner — who’s far more creative than me, particularly in this area — enter a few offensive prompts to see what QuickVid would generate. And ChatGPT, a fine-tuned offspring of GPT-3, has been shown to use sexist and racist language. See: [link].

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 18, 2017

Before you contact a potential lead, you can know what infrastructure they run, when the contract of a competing product expires, how may times they visited your website, which creative they respond to, which social media channels they are active on and so on. And HR/recruiting.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Room for creativity here. Two factors often come down to how Q&A will be shared and/or if we are the incumbent. Stand in a place of creative confidence. When you consider how that is a factor within pricing, it helps you to be creative in pricing strategies. There are times to ask questions and times not to.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Conversely many VCs believe that constraining cash can often lead to increases in creative solutions at a startup. So it’s incumbent on you to know what a smart business plan and use of cash looks like. One entrepreneur refrain I sometimes hear is “We want to raise some extra money for M&A activities.” This is a red flag for VCs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Today, we’re entering an age where creative technology will allow anyone to create virtual worlds and bring their imaginations to life. riggers, environment artists, texture painters) towards creative generalists. A game engine is the canvas by which these real-time 3D interactive worlds are constructed and rendered.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Rights owners should be able to automatically set some sort of protections for at least a period of time (similar to Creative Commons or robots.txt).

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By platform shift, I mean, why has the value accrued to the incumbents and why hasn’t there been a new set of AI-native companies that have come up and displaced them? There’s creativity, like any component of a video game, that you can automatically generate. We saw that in mobile and with the internet and the microchip.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A long-term defensive bet, on the other hand, might be a decision to build internal data centers and repatriate data from the cloud, or for an incumbent to replatform, such as when Adobe moved its creative suite to the cloud.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The sands of market power are shifting and incumbents are poorly-positioned to adapt to evolving customer needs, so there’s a massive opportunity for us to capitalize.” . “ Business model creativity and finding ways to change user behavior with new models is just as important if not more important than the technology innovation itself.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

” With Stable Diffusion out in the wild and already being used to generate pornography — some non-consensual — it might become incumbent on image hosts to take action. That infiltration step might not be necessary anymore.” ” This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry,” he writes for TechCrunch+. They will fight you, but if you are positioned well for the challenge there has never been a better time to prevail.”. 3 questions startups must answer before taking on their largest competitors.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

It felt like my whole life was consumed by this industry, when really, there’s more dimensions to me as a person, and also, what I wanted to do creatively. Craig Cannon [00:03:53] – Of course, which I want to talk about, but I also want to cover the software stuff, too. Jarvis Johnson [00:03:57] – Oh, absolutely.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The reason that you build them is that they can grow the brand much faster as more people experience the product and allow you to (hopefully) displace incumbents who are charging for the same thing. Paid media teams need resources from marketing and creative departments and a lot of money to iterate on ads until they find a winner.

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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. Companies need to be innovative and creative in maintaining/building culture, which was so much easier pre-COVID.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively. There is no cybersecurity skills gap, but CISOs must think creatively. The insurance market is enormous, but the sector has suffered from notoriously poor customer experience, and major incumbents have been slow to adapt. are all testament to this.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 13, 2024

And so it sort of harnesses the creativity of, you know, thousands of years of human authors and artists and then sort of, derives, you know, new kinds of answers or new kinds of images or whatever. But fundamentally, you’re sort of in interaction with our civilization in a very profound way. Economic growth is a great starting point.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 6, 2024

We should always do this—having incumbents encourage and welcome healthy competition of ideas, as long as everyone supports the winner in the end. Because we have so much money in politics and it’s very expensive to run a campaign, potential candidates are hesitant to mount an ill-fated primary challenge to an incumbent.

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