development frameworks incumbents 
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 28, 2021
Madhavan provided an excellent framework for answering this question, in addition to a multitude of other insights. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Michelin developed a much more durable tires. Those are some of the chestnuts from the session, and they provide a rough framework.
Revolution
MARCH 23, 2022
Startups are a Sustainability Accelerant: Unlike industry incumbents with slower, more outdated frameworks, startups often build with sustainability at the forefront of their business?—?even To bridge the gap, Sparkcharge developed its mobile charging service to blanket cities with energy regardless of zip code.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 23, 2023
As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Price low to minimize adoption friction, grow quickly, and then move up-market after developing broad adoption. Skimming is less common in the software world because few startups develop a product at launch that will be accepted by the most sophisticated customers (and those willing to pay prices that generate the greatest margin).
Andreessen Horowitz
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). The problem with the 70–20–10 rule is that product is so multifaceted that it defies a generalizable rule or framework.
Hunter Walk
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Start with something like, “For the next 12 months any developer of AI models would be protected from legal liability so long as they abide by certain evolving standards.” Observability : Auditable, but not public, frameworks for measuring ‘quality’ of results. As I wrote in April 2023 , “What would an AI Safe Harbor look like?
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. But customers wanted the better product with the same pricing framework as the rest of the industry. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent. That’s hard enough.
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