Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. This did not happen by magic. expectations.

peer-to-peer 102

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 102

TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. Incumbent giants therefore could lose a sizable chunk of market share if a company could just manage to weave together China’s manufacturing proficiency and agility with the modern tech startup philosophy of “moving fast and breaking stuff.”.

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incumbents networking entrepreneurs opportunity 129

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The competition is the incumbent video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but calls on these platforms have a set agenda, and are timeboxed – they’re rigid and repetitive. You choose an avatar, then meet up with their colleagues or friends inside a browser-based game.

incumbents 103

incumbents collaboration culture board 103

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft. But in Intrator’s eyes, the incumbents aren’t set up to meet the demand of thousands of new AI companies clamoring for GPUs — at least not at CoreWeave’s (ostensibly lower) prices.

investing 97

investing investment incumbents accelerator 97

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In a significant cultural shift, the technology organizations inside these FIs have also started to recognize that not all of their tech products need to be built “in-house.” If you are working at an incumbent financial institution and interested in the bleeding edge of technology, we’d love to include you in our network.

frameworks 112

frameworks incumbents leadership advice 112

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

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. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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opportunity incumbents VC culture 76

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

Adam: If you’re a large model creator and you have tens of employees that you can allocate to building a consumer product, and you have the culture to do that, then you can go direct to consumer, and you can build a good product. You know, incumbents versus startups. And they have distribution, so they should be the winners.

incumbents 143

incumbents networking technology creativity 143

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Each organization’s culture around these questions is different. When it comes to purchasing AI solutions specifically, some organizations have a predisposition to buying from larger incumbents, so be sure to have a crisp value proposition for why they should partner with a startup over a larger incumbent with whom they’re already working.

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incumbents health frameworks strategy 114

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. billion of value in the U.S. “We

incumbents 98

incumbents collaboration capital culture 98

Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

As a leader of teams within larger organizations, I was able to build phenomenal teams in terms of both delivery and culture. I did this in part by defining my team’s culture as being outside-the-norm; I worked hard to make sure that my team felt special in the context of the larger organization.

founder 109

founder startup coworking culture 109

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a result, we’ve seen both the rise of open-source networks leading to startups (a la Gitlab and Hashicorp, among others), as well as Docusign- and Slack-inspired freemium models designed to grow within groups at companies.

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incumbents accelerator venture capital finance 127

TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. Moallemi says incumbents have a couple of key challenges that Mosaic hopes to overcome. CFOs are the supposed omniscient owners of a company. Where is revenue coming from, and when will it arrive?

finance 98

finance financing incumbents consulting 98

TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

We have seen 20 creator led learning platforms across “preK to Gray” learning in addition to incumbents like Teachable and very few have an ability to build a moat in my view. In FOW, increased recognition that reskilling and upskilling is a business imperative, company culture matters for competitiveness, increased focus on DEI.

education 134

education venture capital ventures opportunity 134

TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2023

This is what we got into: The fracturing of culture: Gen-Z is large, and very diverse. The trend away from monolithic cultural primacy that began years ago has accelerated with the generation, making culture itself more personal, and more distinct. You can read the report itself here.

incumbents 62

incumbents culture accelerator media 62

Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

Cultivating a culture and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a core principle for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. It’s not an afterthought.

peer-to-peer 105

peer-to-peer entrepreneurial ecosystem entrepreneurship board 105

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The way Sangani sees it, most corporate leadership wants to build a “data-driven” culture but is stymied by tech hurdles and a lack of knowledge about what data they have, where it lives, whether it’s trustworthy and how to make the best use of it. Alation’s platform organizes data across disparate systems. .”

incumbents 86

incumbents collaboration enablement ventures 86

TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Some have blamed the lack of insurance coverage on the country’s culture but Super.mx It’s not a cultural problem,” Villarreal said. Moreover, the insurance incumbents have been unable to address a growing and underserved market.”. “People in Latin America buy a lot less insurance than they do in the U.S.,

health 98

health incumbents culture venture capital 98

Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Those opponents have a sense of what comes with the “big tech” bundle — changes to the neighborhood, changes to rent, changes to the culture they have today. We must acknowledge that while the majority of NYC residents (across the boroughs) were very much in favor of having Amazon in their backyard, there were enough who did not.

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incumbents culture communities networking 102

TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s random enough of an endorsement that it becomes humorous in itself, exactly the kind of vehicle you associate with Ferrell in his less marketing-focused pursuits.

incumbents 95

incumbents strategy capital culture 95

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. The first investment that 75% of our users have done was with less than $500.

investing 99

investing investment ventures incumbents 99

TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

” And this line was the classic motivation for all incumbents buying fintechs: “Why not just bring it in to our platform and get it to customers as quickly as possible?”. It looks like incumbent banks and institutions are still struggling when it comes to offering tech-enabled financial services.

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incumbents energy investing investment 117

Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

Of course, none of this is new nor should be a surprise — the world is undergoing a massive shift from the industrial age to the information age; technology is spreading horizontally across geographies and into new sectors (and creating new markets), but also seeping deep into industries; the cost of capital is showing no signs of increasing, (..)

incumbents 87

incumbents culture transportation investing 87

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. They’re probably not far off from the truth. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

leadership 71

leadership incumbents culture networking 71

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. The competition intensified further last year when American incumbents Beyond Meat and Eat Just entered China. Part 2: Authentication and StockX’s global arms race against fraudsters. Part 3: Where StockX fits in the business of sneakers. The StockX EC-1.

board 91

board pitching venture capital mix-use 91

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Indeed, both companies have similar financial and cultural synergies, Ramesh said, including a focus on eliminating food waste. When we are profitable, we will be able to take on all of these massive incumbents.”. Discount grocery startup Misfits Market raises $200M. In the U.S. That would be the next immediate step for us,” he said.

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incumbents leadership culture VC 75

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

investing 116

investing investment venture capital peer-to-peer 116

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monzo’s culture of customer obsession allowed it to use the crisis to thoughtfully build a beloved consumer and SMB product that has changed personal finance in the UK. 2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer expectations. This did not happen by magic.

peer-to-peer 40

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 40

TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Claire also opened up about how she has grown as a leader, learned to listen to feedback from her team, and improved the culture at Aunt Flow. Things aren’t looking good for the model that once challenged the incumbency of SaaS. And don’t forget to hear from more founders from Columbus, Ohio.

venture capital 73

venture capital SaaS incumbents ventures 73

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. “Today, there are 400+ ketamine clinics in the U.S.,

health 94

health startup incumbents ventures 94

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. There is an incredible, thriving entrepreneurship culture that breeds fascinating companies weekly. Interestingly, valuation trends seem to trail the U.S.

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startup SaaS mix-use opportunity 141

Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

One analyst estimated $15b+ of incumbent market value was wiped out. Whether it’s angling for multi-billion dollar franchises in faraway places like India, or competing for a small startup in Boston — the gloves are off and founders in the right position stand to benefit.

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incumbents venture capital health VC 65

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

05:02 – The fundamentals and framework of growth 07:02 – Assessing growth potential and product lead growth 09:33 – Distribution 11:15 – Your moat and growth 14:00 – Integrating AI for product lead growth 16:23 – Trust as a moat 17:23 – B2C growth – discovery and breaking through 18:51 – Can you get ahead of the incumbents?

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incumbents frameworks leadership culture 80

A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. Your values are tested only when the decisions are tough, like losing money, hurting your brand, firing a highly-productive employee who isn’t a culture-fit, or a wonderful culture-fit who isn’t able to be productive.

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culture strategy SaaS founder 161

WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

It is harder to fund an over-valued venture-backed startup in a Series B round than an under-valued one, especially because founders and incumbent investors shy away from down-rounds, particularly in a robust market where they’re not seeing others take lower valued rounds.

ventures 28

ventures incumbents venture capital finance 28

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by the major food and beverage incumbents such as Nestlé, which launched a plant-based dairy line under the Wunda brand last year, while rival Unilever has been doubling down on its vegan offerings.

incumbents 73

incumbents culture sustainability development 73

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Many companies have wrongly taken to monitoring as solutions, which long term deteriorate culture and hinder them from hiring and keeping the best talent possible.” Incumbents like Amazon have thrown their hats in the ring, too (see: CodeGuru ). Pulse aims to help in this process.”

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culture leadership incumbents development 76

Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

Products like Looker already have this mindset baked in, and on the heels of Google’s Anthos announcement, we are moving toward a world where even the incumbent cloud giants will allow their users to (somewhat) seamlessly move between different cloud environments. I expect to see more blockbuster M&A in this broad category.

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incumbents ventures capital development 91