Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2019

At GLC, he will address the rapid pace of change, innovation and disruption facing us all?and This massive scale of disruption has understandably left organizations on shaky footing , struggling to engage consumers and employees alike and stay relevant. Master digital disruption with digital reinvention. and what to do about it.

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disruption incumbents leadership innovation 130

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“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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incumbents consulting SaaS disruption 106

Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. Some companies want to change the world in one dimension: a better product or a disruptive go-to-market. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent.

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startup incumbents disruption frameworks 110

Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

2 Incumbent banks miss the mark in two crucial areas: The banking experience has not evolved to match modern consumer. In this post, we will walk through what drove Monzo’s early success, how it has come to dominate the UK market, and the company’s opportunity to change the landscape of global financial services with its beloved brand.

peer-to-peer 102

peer-to-peer incumbents finance financing 102

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. There is a massive opportunity to provide products and services that will make life better for today’s seniors and future generations of older adults to come.

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incumbents peer-to-peer strategy opportunity 101

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

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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incumbents disruption networking collaboration 126

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“We saw an opportunity to make a bigger impact by trying to build a better, much more affordable mobile money service than the telcos are building throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa,” Durbin told TechCrunch in an interview. ” Going up against incumbents. . ” Going up against incumbents.

investment 124

investment investing incumbents networking 124

TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

EdgeQ , Kneron , and Hailo are among the dozens of upstarts vying for customers, the last of which nabbed $136 million in October as it doubles down on new opportunities. He has a deep history of investing in deep tech startups that have gone on to disrupt industries across AI, data, semiconductors, among others.” “Sima.ai

startup 95

startup accelerator incumbents disruption 95

Revolution

JUNE 10, 2019

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. There is something inherently exciting about this growth and the opportunities it implies.

hospitality 100

hospitality real estate peer-to-peer mix-use 100

TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

NVCA-Pitchbook data on acquisitions and IPOs back up the sentiment of founders when it comes to likely exit opportunities. Some might argue that acquisitions are more dominant today because of the anti-competitive motivations of current tech incumbents. since before the dawn of the modern venture capital industry.”

startup ecosystem 98

startup ecosystem incumbents startup entrepreneurship 98

TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Larger banks and other financial service providers are getting a lot more serious when it comes to competing with upstarts that are disrupting their businesses with fresher approaches and newer technologies. We want to be closer to companies’ larger digital transformation programs.”

incumbents 78

incumbents leadership disruption strategy 78

TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. Many like to refute the underlying disruption by pointing to public valuations of insurtech firms, some of which are down as much as 85%-90%.

incumbents 93

incumbents disruption pitching ventures 93

TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

With a large population, Pakistan is geographically smaller, well-connected with fewer provinces, has lower regulatory barriers and doesn’t have strong incumbents,” Khurshid, who is originally from Pakistan, said via email. Catherine Shu reported on C2 Ventures ’ second $20 million fund targeting startups disrupting legacy industries.

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venture capital VC capital ventures 92

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry. Are you an improver or a disrupter? The first path is traveled by improvers — those who see an opportunity to make an existing dynamic better. For startup founders, these words aptly describe the road ahead.

startup 90

startup incumbents creativity disruption 90

TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

One advantage for Klar, according to Möller , is that its “cost to serve a user” is about 1/20 of what the incumbents pay. The cost base can be lowered just enough in order to make this a profitable business and that is what has us very optimistic about this opportunity,” he said. “We I tie it back to complacency from the incumbents.

incumbents 97

incumbents opportunity finance financing 97

TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. Spring Labs is one of them.

collaboration 95

collaboration incumbents networking disruption 95

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Bhettay wasn’t planning to raise additional funds so soon after the Series B, but said accelerated growth in the business enabled the company to hire more, check off more of the to-do list items over the past eight months and provided a unique opportunity to lean in on partnerships and expand financial plans.

capital 98

capital incumbents education health 98

Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

One of the most memorable parts of the session is when modified shared with us that the most common pricing mistake in a land and expand motion is to cede too much value in the free/lesser product, scuttling any expansion opportunity. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Competition.

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frameworks strategy incumbents startup 111

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Jambo , a Congo-based startup building Africa’s web3 user acquisition portal through “learn, play, earn” and democratizing access to crypto-based income-generation opportunities, has raised $7.5 Experts say Africa is poised to be disrupted by web3 in a similar fashion that has seen Southeast Asia become one of the best markets for web3.

education 96

education incumbents mix-use media 96

TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The bootstrapped are coming, the bootstrapped are coming.

startup 84

startup incumbents financing finance 84

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It has been a fun opportunity to disrupt everything.”. Goodles is going after the two oldest incumbents in the space, Kraft and Annie’s, to provide a healthy alternative that tackles both better taste and nutrition. We see product differentiation and other flavors targeting adults.

incumbents 87

incumbents communities disruption innovation 87

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

incumbents 87

incumbents financing finance technology 87

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Recognizing an opportunity for further growth, Vladimirskiy and Nerdio’s co-founder, former Microsoft exec Joseph Landes, decided to spin-off Nerdio as a separate company and sell Adar to a private equity firm in January 2020. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

incumbents 90

incumbents disruption board enablement 90

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . Melonn then takes care of the picking, packing and delivery, so that end-consumers receive their orders on the same or next day, also taking care of returns.

enablement 97

enablement startup incumbents transportation 97

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other side is a proprietary data tool called The Machine that gathers over 15 million data points from places like Shopify, direct customer feedback, Amazon, retail point of sale and search engine trends, to unearth category opportunities for the company to pursue. The Naked Market founders Alex Kost and Harrison Fugman.

capital 86

capital incumbents venture capital enablement 86

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

4:03] Jambot demo [7:02] Human vs. AI creativity [13:37] Applying AI to design [14:31] Startups vs. incumbents Will AI replace designers? With AI, you massively open up the opportunity for creation. Startups vs. incumbents David: I want to shift gears just a little bit and move towards the business and market structure side of things.

incumbents 104

incumbents creativity development technology 104

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

faster than those incumbents, and continue to expand it to more services in its home market, as well as take them abroad. That spells opportunity for companies that are enabling that adoption. The growth of e-commerce and other services on digital platforms has further spurred that trend.

incumbents 79

incumbents enablement disruption innovation 79

TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. McCarthy, who spent significant time in Brazil growing up and is trilingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese, has been covering the LatAm and Miami ecosystems for TechCrunch with an eye to the disruption underway in these interconnected regions.

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incumbents pitching strategy disruption 99

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

’ small and medium business market because “its product is easy to use and suited for the big market opportunity in the U.S.” “How we’ve disrupted our space in South Africa, we see an opportunity over there. According to Chen, the company sees potential in the U.S.’

incumbents 90

incumbents disruption opportunity enablement 90

TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Sheel Mohnot of Better Tomorrow Ventures, who took a seat on Coast’s board as part of the financing, says his firm was impressed by both the size of the opportunity and the team at Coast that’s tackling it. .

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founder startup incumbents financing 98

Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

These near-instant feedback loops challenge incumbents to continue to earn the attention of their user bases with better products than rivals’ applications. For incumbents, the race is on to save their businesses. For startups, the opportunity to disrupt has never been more accessible. Ergo, massive acquisitions.

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incumbents disruption innovation accelerator 40

TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. Guess we’ll see about that.

real estate 106

real estate VC mix-use opportunity 106

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Startups like Ascend aiming to disrupt the insurance industry are also attracting venture capital, with recent examples including Vouch and Marshmallow , which raised close to $100 million, while Insurify raised $100 million. Ascend app.

financing 83

financing finance incumbents disruption 83

TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

“The only way to change this damaging trend is to radically increase the number of healthcare professionals with interest in and access to opportunities at hospitals and nursing homes. To do that, you can’t rely on old methods. Those are the tools that won’t fix the current problem.” App-based marketplace.

health 97

health hospitality incumbents opportunity 97

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Critics cast the startup’s entrepreneurial approach as greedy opportunism. “Disruptive innovation in any industry is never comfortable; it never starts out as something that the incumbents are pleased with,” Sheth said. . ” .

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entrepreneurs health disruption incumbents 77

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

His response: while Token is unlikely to build those kinds of services itself anytime soon, it will likely partner with others that are disrupting in that area to provide alternatives: “Credit was cards, but it will be replaced by buy now, pay later, and other forms of credit,” he said.

incumbents 81

incumbents finance financing innovation 81

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

While there has been a lot of focus on mental health and the promise of psychedelics to be truly disruptive, not all the hype is warranted or justified. Additionally, the IP around these opportunities will be far more defensible, as they will be new chemical entities (NCEs). To a degree, yes.

health 94

health startup incumbents ventures 94