Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

70% Team, 30% Market I also talk often about how much the team plays a critical role in my decision backing an A-round company because so much changes as a company develops. Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever. Fundamentally the system feels broken.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In this area I’ve developed another philosophy that guides my investment decisions and forms a lot of the premise that I debate in our internal partners’ meetings when I’m advocating that we invest in a company. .&# They might be large markets, sure. But what about markets?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2022

Foundations endowed with significant token stakes fuel the ongoing protocol development, balancing the capitalism needed to fuel progress with the benevolence intrinsic to the open-source ethos. DAOs bind the loose community of open-source software contributors through tokens. There’s one more!

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

After all, AI is costly — Gartner predicted in 2021 that a third of tech providers would invest $1 million or more in AI by 2023 — and debugging an algorithm gone wrong threatens to inflate the development budget. ” Chatterji has a background in data science, having worked at Google for three years at Google AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

In the latest development, U.K.-based Starling — which competes against incumbent banks, as well as other challengers like Monzo and Revolut — said it will be using the money to continue its growth. based Starling announced that is has closed £272 million ($376 million at current rates), at a pre-money valuation of £1.1

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Lisa Dolan, managing director at Link Ventures, said she found the company while examining web traffic data, where Breeze was listed among industry incumbents among consumers searching for disability. He will also increase Breeze’s headcount in the areas of software development, customer service and marketing. “We

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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.” As I wrote in April 2023 , “What would an AI Safe Harbor look like?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

Open & closed ; small/medium/large ; models built for images or code or text ; all of these are in rapid development. The proliferation of different model types has created a cornucopia of choice. In addition, the underyling systems to manage AI applications have changed rapidly. Initially, an AI app meant wrapping the AI.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 13, 2025

Awardees under Round Two of the Pilot Clean Tech Demonstration Program are developing technologies that will address the carbon footprint of concrete, divert packaging waste from landfills, and the infrastructure needed to support the transition to electric vehicles, exemplifying New Jerseys standing as a hub of innovation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. We often worry about access, but Truepill is in an interesting spot,” he added. “We

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2021

A company with this architecture will map out the customer journey sufficiently well to develop proxy metrics , leading indicators of customer behavior. A data scientist might develop a churn prediction algorithm. The first feedback loop influences users and customers. When will this customer persona upgrade?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. The fresh investment will be used to fund IMVU’s product development and comes fresh off a restructuring at the company. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, another new company has entered the community-led growth fray with a slightly different approach to the existing players, one focused on developer communities and with open source at its core. We’re the first going in the developer space.” ” Crowd.dev analytics. ” Crowd.dev analytics. I mage Credits: Crowd.dev.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

In other words: Don’t spend half your development budget on making something easier to use, if you can’t find a business case for it. Especially if it turns out that you inadvertently end up developing the wrong featureset in the process. Will an incumbent copy us and destroy us? Throw up a “coming soon!”

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. The funding will be used to develop Equatorial Space Systems’s Dorado commercial-sounding rocket family. The round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market. What are these moats? At the moment, capital & technical expertise create competitive advantage.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio. We’re really accelerating our process development work to bring down the cost of goods as well as making some fast work of our strain engineering.”.

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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).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

And while a new generation of “insurtech” startups have emerged in recent years that are bringing more modern processes into the equation, typically the incumbent major insurance companies — the ones that Tractable targets — have lacked the technology to improve that process.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Some organizations pride themselves on building their own tech stack in certain areas like patient experience, where others tend to look externally first before considering custom development. The level of investment scales based on product development approach. Transparency is critical.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Forto will be using the new funding to accelerate the development of its supply chain management solutions by adding order management and value-added services. The platform gives customers real-time data and on-time delivery, while typically reducing their administrative supply chain costs by 30%.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent. Startups are innovation machines. Prioritizing how to differentiate in the market is a key aspect of product management.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. Another company competing in the increasingly saturated segment is Sima.ai , which is developing a system-on-chip platform for AI applications — particularly computer vision applications.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

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.”. Physically, the Chinese market also differs greatly from much of the developed West.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Excepting breakouts like Anduril and Palantir , most contracts are awarded to incumbents — more than 95% of Booz Allen’s nearly $8 billion in revenue comes from government contracting — and any startup that gets a foot in the door has to bridge the gap between the R&D phase and the contract award.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Incumbent client/server technologies have lost their market dominance to new incumbents. Thousands if not tens of thousands of pages have been written about the marketer, sales developer, inside account executive and customer success play. This sea of SaaS startups have reshaped the market. The chart above shows them by buyer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s particularly put the microscope on developers where it concerns efficiency. ” A decent chunk of developers’ time is spent on internal tooling, including building admin dashboards, report-generating systems and data pipelines. “Superblocks is an accelerant for building internal apps.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Innovation continues to drive new developments in lending, payments, crypto and, in particular, infrastructure, showing that the industry still has lots of room for growth. However, as the market grew crowded, infrastructure providers have started competing over who can develop the least expensive product and sign the most fintech companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The injection of cash will be used for continued geographical expansion and to accelerate the development of new products. Notably, this will include plans to launch in 10 new markets as Northmill aims to step on the gas. Next stop, Norway.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

Reinvent your incumbent enterprise before you’re disrupted by another, or you risk becoming obsolete. Recognizing the ongoing value that loyalty brings, companies are rewiring every business function, from product development to their own staffing. Along with new competition comes new opportunity. and “how can we sell it?”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. These will typically be at incumbent banks, but they do not offer the same ranges of services to customers. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this first clip, he explains why he thinks generative AI is a major architectural shift in computing, and why it represents an opportunity for startups to get a leg up on incumbents. ” Anu does not think generative AI tools for writing software threaten the role of developers.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

Therefore, entrepreneurs should start with developing a deep understanding of the customer’s problem and launch only when they are sure they can deliver the customer a solution to their problem. Bonobos found the white space in the market and developed a niche product. Sign Up: Receive the StartupNation newsletter!

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